Anodyne Rust

Virtues calcified to dust Foundations crumble under whispered lies Each concession carves deeper wounds Into the architecture of integrity Compromise becomes oxygen Breathed until suffocation feels like growth Principles dissolve in acid rain Of rationalized surrender Surrender Values bleed into sand Conviction's skeleton, bleached by synthetic light What stood firm now bends to breaking Moral spine twisted beyond recognition The feast begins with crumbs Ends with devouring mountains whole Corruption never announces arrival But leaves footprints in abandoned beliefs Corrosion crawls through sacred halls Silent cancer of the conscience Decay disguised as evolution The terminal disease of moral drift Boundaries fade like ancient maps Weathered by storms of small surrender The landscape, unrecognizable When viewed through eroded eyes Terminal erosion Conscience silently rusting The slow dissection of resolve Completed atom by atom Corrosion crawls through sacred halls Silent cancer of the conscience Decay disguised as evolution The terminal disease