sacred rites

out to the edge of town with you
out to the forest floor

where violence spread and young blood shed
out with your need for more

learn temperance by way of madness
pursuit from pain and vice

may what you seek from difference consume you
and become your biting lice

then lay it down, return center, young boy as man
quarantine for a time alone

and remember to fear the Sacred, son
admonish the boy the Throne