POEM FOR THE NEW DARK AGES

POEM FOR THE NEW DARK AGES

and so
with cluster bombs
and missile strikes

we are happy
to welcome in
the new, longed for
beloved dark ages

final death
of that enlightenment
so alien to our natures

and now
we must needs search
for all that will
definitively
spell the end
of freedom

a new Torquemada
and new Inquisition to implement
his absolute control
over all our thinking

rooting out
any hope that we
can aspire to
anything higher

than slaves of Empire,
cyphers to be wiped
off History’s blank slate