I am Every Enemy

I've been shaped into an arm of the most righteous despiser Whose blessings of rejection burn upon the back of my teeth The bodies of black sheep pile higher Sacred cows are culled from the herd of belief Those drunk on the exception are blind to the law of the rule And the blood of its soldiers pool before its promise's fated breaking In the hysteria of your disobedience, I shot my idols like dogs Then, upon the praising heads of the choir, I rained bombs Spellbound by divinedefiance The gag of allegiance eludes me I'm freed from the restraints of reverence Every taboo and tradition I've plunged into the shuddering depths of the sea Stalking the knife's edge of the liminal Am I bounding toward annihilation or unearthing reconciliation? For the black is deep, and the lofty white bright, and all I see are enemies How can I drink from this shadow and make rid of the light from which it's cast? For I'd stretch my suffering to Heaven to blind the eyes Thatnever sat upon my liberty's past Those drunk on the exception are blind to the law of the rule And the blood of its soldiers pool before its promise's fated breaking I am shaken by the great contradiction From whose helm rattles the head of death with the grain of life's making What is to be of my next becoming? What face will you wear in the further unknown? What shape do you take beyond the static and symbols man has sown?