T H E E N D C O M M U N E

there is a great Holy bliss
in willfully undertaken labor,
and discipline makes freedom,
struggle is required, sacrifice ordained...
no matter what the hedonists, the nihilists,
and the indescriminate fatties and self-lovers
would otherwise suggest.

personal, existential singularity
is a sorry delusion
if life is not lived fiercely
in the breath of the living God.

only in spiritual warfare
God grants uniqueness,
character, distinction, true Selfhood.

in religious radicalization
the individual is forged.