Pilgrims Walking – II

The denizens in and beyond these hills

Sought every sordid, sanguinary thrill

And in their wake a pill to weaken and stake through every ill

We trouped past dark satanic mills 

Mustering dark winds and deathly chills 

Ill born of miasms plague the villages 

The dells and hamlets where it kills 

Indiscriminately like a serial killing criminal, mentally ill 

Prayers are offered in horde

Their frothing priest called the retarded bard

Ferries their empty prayers to the slaughtered Lord.


We abhorred what we saw practised in unnamed shires

We saw demons glinting behind pig eyes in rank byres that stank with silage

Rust coloured old violence 

Land ruptured all violence

Execution without trial and

Berry tree hangings with smiling crowds

Smog hung over towns in leeching clouds

A black shroud, enter and never come out

A creeping doubt, even in us devout 

Abounded thereout, the fiend walked throughout. 


We evinced evil, evidence of gleeful crime, in every house 

We covered our mouths and stifled shouts at the frightful sights which are His delight

Murderous masses for the murderous masses, the prelate and his pope are openly lambasted 

Blasted from the chapel black oily rocks that landed, massive and antient 

Drew hooded masses

Gashes where they crashed 

Ashes of burnt babes mashed 

Into the stone faces, plastered 

Like poultice over lashed backs. 

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