Gnashing of Teeth

A seething knot of caustic serpents Licking flesh with searing tongues Carbon daggers molest the eyes And slash the throat with a thousand cuts Muscle riven - Ripped from bone festering blisters lacerate Blackened tongue, swollen lips Blood boils and coagulates A maelstrom of fiery teeth Masticates upon the fat Gnaw through a burning soul As screams abscond through clenched teeth Swallowing ash In every breath Contort and writhe as the fire eats The remnants spat into the winds The accusers Inhale the flesh Gnashing of teeth, ground down until they crack Flesh unto ashes, ablution through flame Inhaling their transgressions - ashes unto flesh Curling blackened skin cast skyward like a flowering plume of ashen moths. And as the smoke blocks out the sun the serpents of perdition coil. Swallowing ash in every breath Contort and writhe inhaling the flesh