Humanity's Nemeses

They may be accounted for as failed humanity

those who haunt the social order as psychopaths

whose presence is a threat to life itself in their

ego-driven faithfulness to Mephistopheles

a mentor of the dark underworld of death to

whom their existence as a plague of antihuman

malevolence owes much. The dark angel of death

roams the world, lingering on the shores of

nations where misery and pain flaunt their feared

primacy over populations cowering in dread

held in bondage to overseers whose brutality

debases the human condition, where fanatics of

unrestrained violence, power and conflict reign

unopposed. These proponents of envy, hatred 

and savage barbarity who dominate and instill 

terror in populations subordinate to their rule are

the bane of civilization's orderly assurances that

life is a sacred gift to be treasured. A civilization

that also produces an alternate counterpart to the

demons that stalk the vulnerable; these are the

courageous few who risk all to counteract the danger

imposed upon social order by humanity's nemeses.