He chased a chimera for he was one himself
convinced he had the formula that would free his
people from their serfdom to a bitterly hostile
ideology that would permit no individual agency
meant to transform a people into a colony of
regimented, order-obeying collaborationists
the very pillars that held aloft the canopy of
self abnegation purportedly for the benefit of
the social weal in worship of an unyielding elite.
In a conspiracy to dehumanize a vast populace. He
acted in conscience with the means and purpose
of liberation and was lionized for his kind humanity
by those only marginally impacted by his decrees.
Those for whose benefit he acted gifting them
with freedoms loathed him for the resulting destruction
of their shackles in preference to tyrannical rule
more familiar to them, taking comfort in shifting
discipline and responsibility to an echelon they
envisaged acted in good faith for their benefit.
Rejecting their liberation they once again bask in
the steelclad strictures burdening and once more
impoverishing them in mind, spirit and body.
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