When Hate Reigns

Inaugural Day.....

Inaugural day.
     The crowd gathers;
              people clamor
as Hate steps up to the podium.

He is calm, collect.
    The weather is cool, brisk.
     The people are excited and alive from the commemoration.

Hate is poised over the calamity of noise
             as onlookers stare up at Him in awe.
   Tall, almost elegant with His grand gestures.
    His voice thunders in everyone’s head.

He speaks:
          “People! People! I am here today before you
                    as a symbol of a new beginning that is about to take place.
      We are on the threshold of a new era,
             an era free from the destruction of obscenity;
             the infestation of affectivity.
      At the forefront of this populace
      I shall begin the absolution to freedom.”

And Hate smiled.
       And the people cheered
       for they had a leader who was brave.

But there was a dark cloud that loomed above – –
         fat and swollen with rain – –
but the people didn’t care
      for rain was good
        It fed the ground, which nourished life
        so it mattered none
       that it was a murky mysterious rain.

And the rain fell,
and Hate smiled,
        and the people cheered
        for they had a leader
        who provided for the people.

Then a mighty wind rose
          and carried with it the spirit of transformation,
          the embodiment of change.

The wind was good because it brought change –
              change was good because it is fundamental
     so it mattered none that the wind eroded the land
     that the rain had cultivated.

And the wind blew,
and the rain fell,
and Hate smiled,
               and the people cheered
              for they had a leader who pioneered growth.

Then the land trembled
and it shook with the force
        of a thousand secrets never revealed
        and the rumbling of truth that none believed.

But it was good 
         because it carried the knowledge 
        of the beginning of time,
               so it mattered none 
               that time tumbled away under the roar of the soil.

And the Earth shook,
and the wind blew,
and the rain fell,
and Hate smiled,
         and the people cheered
         for they had a leader 
          who promoted  the sovereignty of faith.

And Hate stood motionless at the pulpit.
        The crowd trampled over one another
             for a glimpse of His auspicious demeanor,
         that flicker of something almost sinister in His eye,
         which they knew meant that 
            He was a man  of great power.

And Hate smiled
              and the people cheered
              for they had a leader 
              who would lead them through a revolution –

And the Earth shook,
and the wind blew,
and the rain fell,
and Hate smiled;
              but the people
              the people quailed from this future
       for it was different
       it was unfamiliar.

But Hate stepped away from the platform
          as the onlookers stared up in awe.
The silence echoed through the heart of each  spectator.
              This was, indeed,
            the commencement 
                   of a new instigation of life.