04-11-2024, 10:37 AM
Practitioners
What, after all, is torture’s purpose?
Extracting information, one might say,
of a political or military nature
or ideological, not excluding religious...
But when brands are applied,
rack racheted or water put to work,
they will say any thing
true, false, made-up or simply noise
to make it stop.
Useless, then.
No, torture’s purpose is to frighten
those not yet subjected to
give up their friends,
their secrets, faith,
their cringing souls
while they still have
any of those to give–
while sanity remains.
Demonstration, then.
But after that
the show continues
for since victims are, by definition,
in the power of practitioners
all that remains
is to exercise it, prove their power
endlessly. Simply knowing
that one’s minions carry on
in one’s absence is sufficient.
(It is said the Huron
tortured captives to let
them prove their mettle.
Dilettantes!)
What, after all, is torture’s purpose?
Extracting information, one might say,
of a political or military nature
or ideological, not excluding religious...
But when brands are applied,
rack racheted or water put to work,
they will say any thing
true, false, made-up or simply noise
to make it stop.
Useless, then.
No, torture’s purpose is to frighten
those not yet subjected to
give up their friends,
their secrets, faith,
their cringing souls
while they still have
any of those to give–
while sanity remains.
Demonstration, then.
But after that
the show continues
for since victims are, by definition,
in the power of practitioners
all that remains
is to exercise it, prove their power
endlessly. Simply knowing
that one’s minions carry on
in one’s absence is sufficient.
(It is said the Huron
tortured captives to let
them prove their mettle.
Dilettantes!)
Non-practicing atheist