Abominable Acts - Monotheist

Shackled by greed

Herded like cattle, subhuman filth

Regarded as a means to feed corruption

Branded by the Mark of Cain

A sign from God to reveal the fallen

A creation inferior

Lashed and flayed

Whipped and slain

Hearts of stone swallow living flesh

The Word to justify

Abominable acts

Their purported light makes clear

The depths of darkness

Centuries of abhorrence

Mitigated but slightly

The physical scourge

Gives way to mental torment

The icon of bondage resurfaces

With a different face

All of humanity now enslaved

By the ones who sit on mountains of gold

Peering below on the valley of peasants

The helpless, the powerless

Hearts corrupted and blinded by the illusion

That this life is measured by wealth and the material

In their eyes, we all bear the mark

Signifying our status

As fodder to be trampled upon

Goaded, prodded, processed

Fed into a cycle of servitude

Trapped beneath an impossible burden

A vain effort to satiate the gluttonous abyss

Of the ones who lust for power

The ultimate charade

The charlatans propagate

Faith in freedom

Amounting to unending deceit

A million miles from truth

The road forms a divide

A schism among us

Brother against brother

While they laugh down at us all