Bearing The Serpent's Lamb

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Bearing The Serpent's Lamb

This virgin churns on the back of her own
indisposed and throbbing body

Nauseated she chokes on her own vomit
emitted from her distended and desiccated throat

With an abdomen beginning to
flourish as her ribs now unhinge and shift

Beneath the rib cage lay a sweltering child,
A child forcing and pushing outward
for decampment of his mother's womb

Bearing a bastard child
Bearing what is now the son of the new world's lord

Bearing the serpent's lamb
Overwhelmed she grows debilitated and weak
Staying attentive becomes more burdensome.

A struggle to stay awake
as her body contracts
She mutters one conclusive,
crowning breath:
"Why would such a god allow such deep evil?
Theodicy!"
The curtains are slowly lowered
over her solitary and meaningless life

Her chest lay open,
an open and gaping wound
revealing the damage left inside

Her own body only used to mask
the beast that dwelled internally
This orphan child scowls over
the remains of his birth given origin, his own mother
Only to grow through his adolescence
to clench the name of the antichrist