Flux of shame and exultation Inner intoxicating, delightful tremor Warmth and mellowness in defeat In it the sense of victory Lost all faith in inspiration And miraculous veneration of truth Uncontrolled and entangled Perpetually confused A lifeless form of life A spiritual lust We hunger for esoteric nourishment Primordial prior prevailing delusion Of salvation of the soul Delusions freed in malign Inspired onslaughts of skeptics And outer restlessness The extinction of morality And the spirits from the past The harsh the powerful the impetuous Oh the potent wretchedness We bear onward the banner of enlightenment And celebrate the destruction of Christian dogma The devious web-weavers bewilderment As they succumb to their own malediction The diminished and uprooted, Imago Dei And maggots in life's bread And maggots in life's bread A lifeless form of life A spiritual lust