Forbidden

Forbidden

Dead authority from a time when metaphysics had no rhyme

Minds where reason would have been the ultimate crime

So bow down to the imagined authority where obedience is priority

Divinity moved from the mountains to the planets, then the stars and beyond that fraternity

The great defeat was when Man learned to read

For now the reason of Aristotle would become freed

The evil to think and scale reality’s objective summit

Everyman is an island when it comes to deciding whether to think or submit

Betrayal was from within humanity

Fear rose up and superstition took on personality

The ultimate bogeyman of infinity in hell

The estimate of punishment if you were a spiritual ne’er-do-well

Theist and humanist decried the individual for selfishness

For divinity and collectivity was surely greater than individuality?

Both sides of the same coin they fought to power and the result; catastrophe

The rational mind the scapegoat of irrational power’s empty