A lullaby in blood
From carpenter to posthumous throne
Simple garb to extravagant robes
Thorns become rubies
Constantine chose the books
Ambitious men chose the path
Religious fires burn brightly
Opposition in ashes
Papal thrones bought and sold
A church built on lies and old bones
Red mitres dictate lives never lived
The pastoral staff steeped in common blood
Pontifical agreement implicit
Ecclesiastical teaching with lifted cassock
The innocents’ screams unheard in heaven
A symphony of pain becomes liturgical music
A man called saviour searches salvation
Change hangs on a cross
Ignorance the offending nails
Blind denial cracks the rock
Indifference crumbles foundations
The fisherman’s ring tarnished
Pretensions of grandeur attend the funeral
Arrogance will light the pyre
