The Priest.

(Spoken Word)

The thin line of white light in the distance,
the half-open door, the persistence,
the will to live is what compelled me,
on that cold, dark, treacherous night;
When they tied me, told me they could see,
the blood on my hands, the evil in my eyes,
the semen on my wretched crotch;
They found the body, they said, in the moor,
with leeches sucking the dead blood that rots,
and now they were all in a rage;
A divine moment of higher truth, i felt like a sage,
underneath the torment of simple minds that god refused to touch;
And i blamed them all, it is because of you, i said,
and you and you and you;
I pointed my finger until they lynched it to rest,
lying face down on the ground,
with my hands tied, dirt in my mouth,
my body screamed as they put the salt in my wounds....
And then they whipped me again.



For years after that, i traveled from place to place,
a wanderer, a man with nothing to lose,
but a grieving sin, nailed to my back;
The children shrieked in in terror and stoned my face,
the women-folk covered themselves at my wretched sight,
i lived eating maggot refined shit, disposed, by the side of the road;
And then one day, it came to me,
clear as a crystal of methamphetamine on a cold winter night,
as i lay there choking on my own vomit;
I set out to find home, with the company of the cur that licked the blood off my wounds each night,
the only faithful i had left,
it wagged its tail whenever the towns-folk whipped me,
and later it would comfort me with its warm tongue,
licking me dry, of myself.



I could hear the celebration, and see the glimmer of the bright lights wavering in the distance,
i sat down for hours with the mutt, chasing its infested tail with its snapping jaws;
I watched them.
I watched them eat and kiss and sing and dance,
a beautiful mask to cover their bitter jealousy;
They were bitter for i had helped her escape,
the wretched circle of life,
i HAD to rid them of their sins,
and so... i went.



I blessed them, that christmas eve,
I blessed them all...
I started with them men, and ended with the children.