The powerful in their supreme vanity
believe that none may deny them the right
to enslave the minds and remove human
agency from those they view from pulpit
or throne through command and coercion
to obey and genuflect confined to honouring
every whim however degrading to the
human spirit helpless to protest carried as
though by a current indomitable as the will
of rampaging nature sweeping all dissent
leaving in their wake the carnage of misery
that violent confrontation brings. Yet there
is always the thereafter and time's promise
that it will not be a mass atrocity that rocks
the tyrants from their perch but a single and sole
defining incident whose horror all can identify
that spurs them to believe they must at last
act to overthrow the leaden weight of evil.
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