Steel Jaws - Diocletian

Captured this mere man of mercy

And held fast him to an iron grip

Muscles tensed flexed humongous

Tearing dove like wings to shreds

Steel jawed set to devour

Last feeble prayers remain unsaid

Silenced by the machineries of war

Forsaken monuments of dead loyalties

Perished idyll messiah’s complex

His brow punished by a crown of thorns

Every thought and every memory ridiculed

Subjugation before the sign of horns

Every moment of life a sacred heart in sorrow

Piercing barbs at every beat of their bleeding hearts

Paraded trophy fallen from grandeur

Whipped and flogged this lord of the dance

Sullen skies filled with screaming fire

Blood red ocean brims and boils

Vandalized the house of heavens

Seized in Mithraic constructive coils

Eater of worlds

Conqueror of gods

I take my fill

Plunderer of stars

Steel jaws