The Black Messiah

 

Grady McMurtry

 

20 November 1940

 

 

Within the Colosseum roars

the restless Roman mob

Howling for the blood of Christians

driven forth with jeer and probe.

Shift the scene a dozen centuries

to northern Europe land;

See the Christians prick the pagans

as they search for Nimir’s brand;

Hear the righteous, feel the struggle,

know the horror of the thought

Of the swelling horde of innocent

that are for slaughter caught.

Caught to satisfy the thirst of those

who ride the church as wain,

Though the Christians died as martyrs yet

the witches burned in vain.

 

Be ye not deceived,

Still those sobs within your throat,

Let not your hearts be grieved,

Soldiers of the Mighty Goat!

 

This ritual that mocks the church

with incantations of the Mass

But opens pathways to the search

for knowledge old, and not of crass.

For we who are to Lilith born

remain in homage to our Queen;

The Old Religion reared again

will batter down all walls between,

To conquer all that men can know

and raise again our rule supreme;

O’er all the nations of the world

the Witchcult will regain its dream!

And those who died upon the pyre

will take their honors from the fire.

 

 

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