Lords of Lies

When the madman cowers in terror
because he imagines spiders issuing from his mouth,
when he whispers his fears,
we do not condemn him,
we do not agree with him,
it would be madness to believe him.
Why then, do we give hearing to the madmen
in offices of power,
whose grand delusions of threat,
whose deluded view of right and wrong
would set the world ablaze?

It is a sad truth: in our times madmen rule. Those that follow them are all the more mad. Their madness has become so common place that we debate its merit. There is no merit! Madness is madness. Hear this! Madness is madness! They kill in the name of their gods, they thieve in the name of their gods. They worship hatred, separation and death; they call it love, community and life. They elevate the dark and proclaim it to be light. We need no devils; the lords of lies walk among us now.