Androktasiai

Factions and tribes and parties and nations

Intricate webs of ideology

Fantasies spawned by imaginations

Capering shadows of mythology

All bring you here, to the field of battle

Where cryptic old stories and older gods

Twist poetry into a death rattle

Under the spell of demagogic frauds

You turn all your talents to taking lives

Looking for eyes to, by violence, close

Thanks to war, my gluttonous spirit thrives

From your first conflict, laughing, I arose

Teaching you to destroy one another

Is my best chance to your brief lights smother