They Are

THEY ARE
CARICATURES OF INNOCENCE AND GOODNESS
MOCKERIES OF PURITY THE DEVOLVED
FALLEN EVEN FURTHER FROM NEANDERTHAL
IN THE MODERN AGE DO THEY SHOW THEMSELVES
GLARING SLOTHLIKE AND CHILDISH, DEFICIENT
THEY, MUST TELL, HOW IT DOES FEEL
AFTER ALL TO BE INSIGNIFICANT WEAKLING

AND THEY AND MANY MORE STILL TREACHEROUS
REFUSING TO GRASP EVEN THE MOST SIMPLE TRUTHS
WHICH DISTINGUISH REALITY FROM DELUSION
FOR CAPRICE GRIPS THEIR DECEPTIVE HEART
AND THEY WILL NOT INDULGE THE EVIL OF THOUGHT

SULLEN AND BROODING COUNTERFEITS
TO THE SOMBRE AND MOROSE SOUL
JETTISONED LOOK NOT INTO PITCH
OF THE WORMWOOD LEGER LEST CONTAMINATE THE DITCH
OF ATROCITIES DUG BY THINE OWN PURE HAND WITH
CRIMINAL WEAKNESS FOR LOVE AND FOR WAR

AND IN THE CROMAGNON HIERARCHY FEARS' BRED
THE PAIN OF OUR SERVANTS REFLECTIONS
OF THE PAINFUL ISOLATION ATOP HIGH
THOUGH BETTERS MUST FALL SHORT
OF THIS STRENGTH THAT WE MAY SURVIVE

WHAT LOVE IT WAS THEREIN THE SOUL LAY ONCE
YET NOW WHAT ONCE WAS THERE NEVERMORE WAS
WHENCE AN EMPTINESS WHICH JUST IS NOT LIES
HENCEFORTH, THE RAGGED AND TATTERED DIRGE
OF HATRED BREEDS WITHOUT ALL OF PURITY
DOMINANT NEED, AND FAINTED A TOUCH
LIGHT FROM BLACK AND TOO IN MYSTERIES
BID UNWILLING TO ABSCOND HITHER CLEARING
WHERE FOREST BLACKER THAN BLACK RENDS
FULIGINOUS SHROUD, AN ADORNMENT DRAPED
FINE AS, MACHETE, AS GRIM RAINMENTS ENFOLD
AS INNOCENT VENOMOUS MURDERS IN FOALS'