"THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES / REVELATIONS OF MARTYRDOOM"

     I

  every culture tries to control nature,
  which is a threat, an existential threat

  this natural fear and immense respect for nature
  is the generator of all our human interactions

  humans love walls

  and moats

  even hedges and fences and lines we love

   a humanity clearly morally incomplete
   in these, God's green acres
   everseek guidance, and understanding, and forgiveness
   and delineation from dangers and threats

 humans vulturous for protection and prosperity
 often bid their luck and hope to the polemics
 of mighty rulers and charismatic charlatans :
 sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse
 
   II

 practice what you preach

leader of the priesthood !

king corrupt ! machiavellian chaos appetite in rampage !

  the council chamber and your ivory throne,
  the splendour with which you appear in public
 
  the suppliant crowd who solicits your attention

  the multitude of letters and petitions
  to which you dictate your falsely endearing answers

  the perpetual hurry of business
  in which you are seemingly involved...
 
   but it is all smoke and mirrors !

   and i refuse to flatter your vanity !

   arrogant, rigid, inexorable vanity !
 
   unforgettable vices moved by unforgivable causes...

    III

    the sword of Damocles fell on necks of the tyrants !

the filth-heads of corrupt priests
are put on spikes sharpened splendorously
by the wrath of innocent children

   the venom-yellow lecterns of slippery axolotl leaders
   overcame with nature's green rust
   and succumbed to natural ruin   
   over the course of a great, eternal silence
   following their usurpations

the material wealth of that priesthood seems a sufficient evidence of their guilt, since it was neither derived from the inheritance of their fathers, nor acquired by the arts of honest industry

the ecclesiastical jurisdiction was rendered venal and rapacious under the leering influence of Satan

by their lasviciousness and luxury, the Christian religion was rendered odious in the eyes of many Gentiles !

the Holy works of exalted men forever carry grace and honor and humility ! and by the same token, the wicked workings of devils and impostors forever carry the cursed marks of Satan !

    hard, as they both are, to wash away...

   IV

i once said that those who neither
rebell against nor are devoted to God
are the worst of the worst of all scum :
i must revaluate this disposition...

i now firmly believe that the worst of all scum
are the agents of malevolence and the carriers of evil
and not the ones who are simply
arrogantly indifferent to it all :

   the wilful corruptors of human potential
   will forever be the true devil-worshippers !

    ...and the witnesses of God labor eternally
    against it in silence and in obscurity

   i think the extent to which solitary sacrifices
   are honestly undertaken
   may measure a human being
   in character and spiritual stature

   and the only thing left for us to pray for
   is the hard-earned acumen, erudition in death,
   and the offering of solace and redemption
   in your spiritual self-extermination !