Between the grey pillars of conscience

The path to truth narrows

The burden of Aksios, leakingThrough open wounds

Lo and behold, the finely crafted

Precise mechanism of sheep and scapegoat

Relative within the borders of universal logic

Collective confidence in moral permanency

The lowest common denominator is crowned

Standpoints are chosen over general reason

Stars allocated to every man and woman

Fair measure of futile love and will

Fortresses of blissful unconsciousness

Anywhere between Aquinas and Descartes

Blazing a trail as shown, as told

Over the exact same traces

Crawling in circles

With face in dirt and spirit skyhigh

The destroyer of hope, king of rust and wreck

Contract and detract

Harbinger of havoc, wreaker of rule

Truth becomes lie and lie becomes truth

Fortresses of blissful unconsciousness

Anywhere between Aquinas and Descartes

Blazing a trail as shown, as told

Over the exact same traces

Crawling in circles

With face in dirt and spirit skyhigh

The destroyer of hope, king of rust and wreck

Contract and detract

Harbinger of havoc, wreaker of rule

Truth becomes lie and lie becomes truth

Here, in fact, we may be in the presence of one of the most necessary of all Devils

The Ecumenical Unifier, champion of all efforts to remove invidious distinctions

Between nature and nurture, body and spirit, interdiction and impulse, time and

Eternity, individual and community, male and female, Hell and Heaven-and

Ultimately, of course, between man and God