it was not long ago humans equated madness with godliness instead if cleanliness.
has so very much changed?
what is it you seek?
Justice?
That is in Each Man's Hand.
Illumination?
a proven tool of humanity's enemy.
they taught you metallurgy… and music… and mathematics and husbandry and how to control fire.
surely you Must still see them as Gods.
though those nigh deific bodies died long ago
and humanity's umis slave to less shadow than
john's sauron dreamt in its height.
kabuki for four ages. nippophilia aside, it is enough.