Bitterness, Bitterness Poem by Adrian Wait

Bitterness, bitterness
We drink this venom
To spite our enemies
This silent killer eats away
Dissolving all hope within
Acidic violence to our soul
Cloaked in righteous anger
Crossing the border of hate
It seeps, corrodes, distorts
Tailored lies become truth
No greater lie told than
The alibi we intertwine
False truth, truth false
Loves heat forged to hate
Light overtaken by darkness
Twisted reality exaggerated
Milked of all virtue
Venom of bitterness
Snake skull spits
To blind all truth, dulls the wit
Numb the conscience sleeps

Bitterness, bitterness
Anger without Dignity
Love once more betrayed
With the gentle kiss of pride
Bitterness you false prophet
Deceiver, father of all lies
Claim to be so reasoned
Finding comfort in the crowd
Majority your democracy
Fed by fear raised on ignorance
Corrupted by distorted anger
To stand alone your greatest fear
Fatal self-prophecy of suicide
Drowning in a sea of relativism
Arrogant piety, seeds destruction
Washing our hands we seal our fate
Still voice silenced we weep no more
Too proud to fall for such deceit
We turn away, poor in all but pride
Battle half over before we realise
We surrender our conscience

Bitterness, bitterness
Knowledge stripped of wisdom
Retreats to silence and lost horizons
The dream is over, No absolute truth,
But that there is no absolute truth
No north Star to guide us we gorge
Ourselves on softminded conformity
None so blind that talks so proud
Bloated in our liberal illusion
Indulging in a banquet of words
Abundant in our philosophies
Satisfied to see truth mocked
Standing aloof rich in delusion
Bitterness is the poison well
Found in the dessert of thought
Where to think is to be hurt
Conformity to the crowd
A darkness that consumes
Conscience.