Vicious lies,
Faded by time,
Exist like green, scaled reptiles—
Slithering through camouflaged crime.

Etched in smoked veins,
Daggered through pink fold,
Leaving blemishes and stains,
And a soul wagered and sold.

Distances bridged in vaulted rooms,
Where black-soothed silence looms.
Burning Sodom, drowned in violence,
Crumbled bread and a fallen chalice.