Death of the Church

People with flags, people with flags flock to St. Peter’s Square,
Building hope, building hope in the pending white smoke,
Sceptics raise, sceptics raise eyebrows at the past and the present,
Blatant dismissal, blatant dismissal of a supposedly faithful future.

Rumours circulate, rumours circulate of a breakthrough in Switzerland,
Recreation, recreation of life’s defining moment has succeeded,
Big Bang two, Big Bang two blows up in a black block tunnel,
Religion is made, religion is made utterly redundant by protons.

Burning Bibles, burning Bibles stacked in the middle of the Pantheon,
Four hundred churches, four hundred churches shrouded in smoke in the middle of Rome,
Falling down, falling down like the divinity they have held for so long,
Lying in death, lying in death on the ground where they should stand so strong.

Priests’ naivety, priests’ naivety as they scream blasphemy at experimentation and calculation,
Bishops’ remorse, bishops’ remorse as humanity loses faith to analysis,
Cardinals’ tears, cardinals’ tears at the inevitable murder of belief,
The Pope’s acceptance, the Pope’s acceptance that science created the world.

Denied salvation, denied salvation, people blame heresy for stealing their faith,
Believers believe, believers believe repentance can save the white jacketed men,
Agnostics’ pity, Agnostics’ pity plugs no eyes nor quells no fires,
Atheists’ mocking, Atheists’ mocking fuels already rising flames.

Marching crowds, marching crowds make one last pilgrimage,
All united, all united in fury over an obsolete obsession and empty confessions,
The Pope stares, the Pope stares answerless at the masses,
All united, all united because of the now exposed two thousand year old fraud.

That was the day, that was the day the Catholic Church fell in uniting the world.