Ritualistic Disembowelment - Parasitic Ejaculation

A savage offer to appease the gods

Showers of blood to bring applause

Temples built high upon the earth

Nearer to God to assure their worth

Fear of leprosy propagates

The blood and tears of the young and weak

Atop this monument, to consecrate

Ensure a future not as bleak

Bodies of martyrs are strewn across stone

As the priests wields the knife, emperor on his throne

Flint pierces skin, the blood gushes about

As the hand plunges under the ribs and rips the heart out

With severed ventricles still spurting blood

Still beating, glistens in the piercing sun

Saturated with blood, his arm outstretched

Toward their nebulous god

Thousands to their knees, the audience is awed

Decapitate the head

Toss the body of the dead

Disembowelment

The gods are pleased

Use the rest for consumption

Cannibalistic luncheon

Weeks on end, a severe drought

Wipes all the food and crops out

Were they sacrificed for pleasure?