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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?