Poem: "Test of Cowardice" by Tanner Reiss

Test of Cowardice
Tanner Reiss

What is it you fear the most from sins long since committed?
Your own ignorance feeding and fueling this
Supernatural violence
The lies you keep quiet now scream with vengeance

Façade crippled in this place no longer Holy
At what cost does innocent life fade slowly?
For you to have yours
Stolen, counterfeit, unworthy
Heaven is not her place to reside
For your heart untrue, she died for you!

Hear the echoes rewound from ghosts of the past
Played back in times of present
Your family destroyed by decisions once made
Forges a bond artificially created
But treacherous fakery will not outlast this test.

No longer sacred is this place you find yourself in
Defiled by these hands of mine
That haunt dreams and blacken golden things
He, who is sacred, does not live here today.

At what cost are you willing to pay
For salvation of soul – I will not pray
But look in the mirror –
Reflection unclear
Tainted and marred – you should live behind bars!

FOREVER NEVERMORE
TO BE ADMITTEDLY HEARD
YOUR SOUL IS CIRSED TO BE BURNED
FEIGNING INNOCENCE – A
COWARD TAKE YOUR GUILTY PENANCE
THIS IS THE GENESIS OF EVIL

But to you, a chance to rewrite the wrongs once lived I give
Enacted before your tainted, undeserving soul
Forever imprisoned by the anger and mental blockade
But only if you can first extinguish the
Lies inside the raging inferno of deceit within your eyes
That prevents conquest of this haunted test

No longer sacred is this place your find yourself in
Defiled by these hands never mine
That haunt dreams and steal life from Heavenly beings
He, who is sacred, will never live here again.
Hear the echos rewound from ghosts of the past
Played back in times of present
Your family destroyed by decisions once made
Forges a bond artificially created
But treacherous fakery will not outlast this pivotal trial.

What is it you fear the most fron sins long since committed?
Your own ignorance feeding and fueling this
Supernatural violence
The lies you keep quiet now scream with vengeance

Feigning innocence – a
Coward take your guilty penance
This is the genesis of evil!

FEIGNING INNOCENCE – A
COWARD TAKE YOUR GUILTY PENANCE
THIS IS THE GENESIS OF EVIL