Dropping The Body

The inevitable and forbearing transcendence 
through the unknown is an empty culmination,
death's ruth holds the humanist,
religion has enslaved with enigmatic lucidity, 
for those Cainites, Euchites, and Glassites
who abide, hold fast, and firm to their riddled ancient 
rewritten texts in continual tangency, Hallelujah; 
intrigued insanity conceived by hawking rogues
who allusively draw weak and frail minds to their deception, 
selling ashen dust for gold, vending despair for hope, 
bartering an afterlife for a few drops of blood,
negotiating faith and guarantees for insecurity, 
exchanging assurance for uncertainty, 
peddling promises fraught with deceit, 
caveat emptor(buyer beware). 

- John Hardesty