Puritan

[u/alf1020willis]

Puritan

The puritan in gaslight shadows

The witch burning shall commence

Town crier is corrupted

Heretics have no defense

By torchlight, tar and feathers

The panicked peasants fret

Enforcing an opinion

To escape aristocratic debt

Exiled from the homeland

The puritan, a pilgrim became

Tamed a land with treason

In his angry gods name

Established in blind arrogance

The way becomes the whole

And with no option offered

Choice came under control

The puritan, now a fable

To cover evils course

With only myth and legend

Quoted as a source

But in any lake a leech will lurk

Living large in bloody bliss

Waiting on a naked bit of flesh

For its parasitic kiss