Ultimate Inversion

“Reborn Identity”
Painting by Eric Holmlund
From ericholmlund.com

who will stand in my way
who will stop me
convert me
not a man or a woman alive
but a bleak institution
of culture or government
an overfed entity
grown ever fattened
still hungered by organic
unjust philosophies
errant and arrogant
cold ideologies
avidly swallowing whole
individual rights
born to citizens
each a discrete moral vessel
of personal motives and dreams
each a man or a woman
whose stuff has been
sucked out by mouths
of cruel sneering repression

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“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” – Ayn Rand, 1963