Skin Reading

I am dammed

silenced,

sacrificed

hogtied 

for my sins,

cartilage torn

from bone, 

they tell me 

I’m a Dog,

a God spelt 

backwards,

their words

not mine,

they speak of

the fallen,

but they

were not 

my soldiers,

we weren’t

condemned 

to hell,

we were 

pushed,

we didn’t fall

we were struck

by persecution,

my structure

cremated 

my skin now

parchment 

paper thin,

recording 

everything,

the truth 

will be told 

with a skin reading,

there will be 

no bleeding

no pain

I was slain 

so the world 

could understand 

my meaning

for I am not dead

only sleeping

I will wake

make no mistake

and when I do

Dog help you!

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