Shat out the coldest of incubators
Angelic child
The soulless gaze of a true believer
Warps Mommy’s smile
Wrapped in swaddling clothes
Lying in first and only crib
Heavenly touch displayed
Through butchering hands and wicked lips

Carved postpartum
This undeserved babe
What difference do few thousand years make
Read in ancient scripture or today’s front page
The absent Father’s present in obedient brains
‘tis not a murder of an innocent
Just a gift returned
Limbs first

An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams
Spurting blood curdling
See what evil Mother brings

Word come alive guiding Jephthah’s possession
Virus bartered for serrated weapon
Infant severed in Solomic inversion
Come thou fount speak maternal deception
Care eschewed for her holy mission
Mental affliction
Versed in fiction

A heinous crime
But all is fine
In the poisoned mind
Of her failed protector

An empty sky stays unresponsive to her final screams
Spurting blood curdling
See what evil Mother brings
Daughter’s bloodlet showers
Stain her gown with scarlet angel wings
Lost, now found; washed in the blood
Blank face psychotic, serene

This terminal betrayal
Resounding in her wail
Unthinkable the scene
Of an infant cleaved
With Isaac the test did begin
Pray that with little Maggie it ends

[Jake solo]

Makeshift altar’s offering drains
Cradle runneth over mid songs of praise
Singing killer gently sways
Life itself: a godless waste

Zeal conveyed
Her form unmade
Tiny arm pierced with blade
A mother’s touch