Red Skies

I know a thousand ways to kill
a weak man’s heart –
and I know a thousand more to tear your life apart
– I’ll take your child, your home,
and everything you know –
all lives I touch are mine,
the lowest of the low – I light a thousand fires,
black death at my command –
I challenge all that hail this god forsaken land
– those who oppose me,
now in my control – red skies
and hollowed eyes, everyone will know
– there is no chance for you to run
– I’ll leave you nude in the desert sun –
I form a river of human blood –
like pigs you’ll lie in the deep red mud –
you are now my army,
like mummies cast in sand –
rise up, cracked and bleeding,
do as I command – creatures born
of bloody mud, copulating stone
– all hail these hideous forms,
wrought by my hand – cities built of human bone
– tarps of skin and human flesh
– harboring disease and waste – salty, bloody taste.