The Delirium of Power

The intoxicating delirium of power

and unitary control rumbles through the 

dreams of tyrants and the nightmares of all 

for whom dictatorial power crumples before

the lens of cerebral reasoning and moral direction. 

There is never at any given time in history a 

shortage of aspirers to power just as the

cautionary fear of the emergence of despotic 

oppressors is not lacking among those whose 

history has been rife with absolutist inquisitors 

who set rules none may disobey on pain of 

punishing deterrence. The misruled resort to 

the subterfuge of obedience while covertly 

gathering restive cliques of rebellion seldom 

achieving their goal for the very arms of the 

oppressor geared to suppress disharmony among 

diverse disentitled derive their strength from 

force of violence meted out generously to fully

extinguish disaffection by the well-known

pacifiers of torture and premature death.