Heretics

Trapped by the Pharisees

Knowledge lays in waste

Gnostic alchemy

Fodder for the hawks of god

Church battalion siege

Ivory towers crack

Did we have the right?

Did we ever?

The judges call your name

You're first on the list detained

As secular casualties

You're damned before you speak

Heretics bound and buried

On live streaming feeds

The prophet spoke no wrong

His truth is in their screams

The judges call your name

Your last on the list arraigned

As secular causalities

You're damned before you speak... heretic!

1615

Or 2022?

My ashes in the Tiber

Yet a flag is on the moon?

The vile, the wicked - subject to prejudice

In excess, pogroms ensue

For atheists and agnostics

Torture and work camps resume

Your confession is all that's left

"Abjure, curse and detest"

Like Galileo Galilei

Atone, just like the rest

Spit your words and leap from the precipice

Start the rack, turn it back, 500 years AD

One by one, it's all undone Enlightenment deceased

None shall defy!