Just One More Day

Just One More Day

A Nation cries

In want of Thee.

Time hurries,

All the while consuming,

That which our hands have built.

Our plenty devoured

In furnaces of desire.

"More, give us more,

The engines roar. "

You wait,

That we might recognize

Your reign.

Your sun rises on each new day.

You are patient.

Wait, wait, wait....

Obedience is not our way.

We turn only blind eyes

And misprize chastisement's scourge.

We know only

The gates of Hell demand,

Demand our sacrifice,

Human sacrifice.

We do not deny them.

No place too sacred to invade.

Give the gods their due,

For they pay our way.

After all, we are only clay,

Living to be merry

One more day.

You speak of Love and Eternity.

Our bellies cry out "Now"

"Who needs Your Throne!"

Give us bread without God,

Our way,

Just one more day.

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