A lesser earth

I, walking in the listless hills 
Walking walking 
Until one day 
A strange friend came by 
He offered me a glass of water 
And he offered me a piece of bread
It so happens that this so called friend 
Was a devil in disguise 
Not unlike the mirage in the desert 
In the tempest heat 
Amidst the black buzzard flies 
The so called “friend” 
Was wrapped in barbs
I could not touch his mortal soul 
There is no greater pain than the distance of a “Friend” 
He was salesman like 
A con artist cunniver, 
Half man - half beast 
For he looked in my starry eyes 
Said “here’s my soul”
The half man - half beast then 
Took a knife sharp as hell
And whilst skinning bunny rabbits told me 
All men must die 
Repeated thrice 
All men must die 
Repeated once more 
All men must die 
 No God! Damn 
   This cannot be. true 
  Father 
Tell me the truth 
   You won’t die 
To leave 
 Myself and three brothers 
    In this wasteland 
In this cold dark drought 
   Feeding anorexic cattle by hand 
    But the half man - half beast 
Laughingly 
Like the hyena 
    Viciously showing his teeth 
      Came to light 
The hyena with 
     Blood stained teeth
 Looked upon me 
With those destined eyes 
   Ripped into 
My soul 
      Heart 
Liver 
Spleen 
   Tore me apart 
Savagely without mercy 
  Until a large gaping wound 
    That fell upon the red dirt ground 
A 
   Dusty 
       Unforgiving 
Place 
   Until no more 
      I had been taken 
From this earth 
Into the caverns of death 
    In the most vicious way 
A war 
Within humanity 
  Rape 
Torture 
Lust 
 Greed 
Evil 
  It was as if 
The end had come not only for myself but 
For father 
   :
    So it was 
 When I looked up
Into the black night 
 The stars dimmed 
As if the switch 
 Had turned down 
   Down 
     Down
  This black sky
 Visited by 
 Half man - half beast 
  Upon this earth came; of note 
   I had visited the abbatoir earlier 
That day, I 
  Saw the torture 
 The pain 
 The suffering 
      :
Half man 
 Half beast 
  Half cast 
    Half least 
      :
The hyena 
   With vicious teeth
 Came into 
   The place 
 Of dust 
      Thrusting 
        An end 
          A great end 
  :
       Stars dimmed 
   Father had passed away 
A little bit of myself too 
      A 
Grave had been built 
In some broken excuse for a graveyard 
  Chipped white tombstones everywhere 
: 
 Body of half man - 
Half beast 
 Lowered into the hard ground 
   Stars dimmed 
     Dimmed 
       Until it was night 
  The man hyena 
     So called “friend”, once 
     Half man - hand beast 
  Had won the day 
     His blood stained teeth 
Had ripped out my soul for 
 Father 
   Was dead 
 The world was a little less forgiving 
       For us all 
Brothers upon 
A lesser earth