Happy Birthday, Iscariot

You embody devils you cannot find,

So you have flaws to blame

For the recklessness you so strongly desire

You embody your lies, and the anguish you kind

It’s made you all you looked up to

And so, the history pages, stamped with your seal

Bloodied and signed.

Makes you the master, the covert emoter

The God.

The manipulator.

Happy Birthday, Iscariot

Betray yourself, that’s all the coward knows to do.

You’ve burned the wheels of this chariot

You can’t fight fire, and then choose to marry it.

Write your history, but your back doesn’t carry it

Happy Birthday, my dear Iscariot.