WHOSE SACRIFICE HAVE WE EATEN?

Blood is the river that flows
Stabs after stabs
From filial swords
Shots after shots
From our supposed protector's guns

Tears is the stream in which we drown
Bellies empty
While our fathers sing Humpty-dumpty sat on the wall
The very ground that swallowed our umbilical cords despise us

So we run
From you, from them, from us
To lands green seeking the gold rush
We once had gold but it's now covered in rust

Maybe we should head to the mountains
To get closer to the clouds
To yell in it's ears
And ask; Whose ewe did we steal?

Which god's sacrifice have we mortals eaten?
That has rendered us countless times by vipers bitten
That has made our lives less in value against cattle or perhaps beetles
Whose sacrifice have we eaten?

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