Evil comes not in horror packages—
Made up obviously repulsive—
Primed to scare people away;
Instead, it perniciously portrays
Righteousness—always self-signed.
Evil is the aggrandizement of ego.
O woe!
We pass off our sins as salvific and force Satanic ultimatums.
God sees.
the wicked worship evil systems—true
they hide behind religion and run from
all expressions of truth—ban and stop
any who speak—ignore the alibi
and deem any who hold to truth the traitor
not just nations—the Church reflects empire
© 2025 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
First published on tristanrobertlange.com, November 4, 2025.
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- Comment from author about the poem: Written in my Biaxial Parallax Form, the devil’s always in the details.
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Tristan am I deceived of does the form represent an S? Maybe I look too closely. Regardless it splits the two verses and evil and good are split and in a form mirror images. So true the message all scams represent themselves as legitimate and in your best interest. Well done my friend
Ah, yes, I see the S. For sure. LOL! That wasn’t intentional, but it is pretty cool all the same. The form itself is like two weights balanced on an axis...mirroring tension and contradiction. What’s interesting here is that neither side represents pure truth. In this one, both sides reflect empire. The Church (representing the Kingdom of God) is meant to be the ideal...the Form...but the Church mirrors that kingdom in distorted imitation. So rather than descending from the perfect to the corrupt, this poem inverts that motion: it starts with corruption and ascends toward the supposed ideal… only to reveal that even the ideal has been compromised. Your read, as usual, is totally a solid, my dear friend and I am grateful that the meaning and the shape delivered. Much appreciated. 🙏🔥🕯️🖤
You are most welcome my friend
I do always like your poems written in this form--the contrast is very powerful!
Thank you so much, my friend! 🙏 I’m glad that comes through in the form. Much appreciated, 🥷 🔥🕯️🖤
I really don't know how to phrase this, Tristan but please don't take it as an insult: I find peace in having no religion/faith. Your faith must be so much torture. Take care of yourself.
Not insulted at all, my friend…I see the heart and care in your words. 💛 Faith isn’t the culprit here, but institutions often are. Religion, when it hardens into systems of control, ends up distorting the very thing it’s meant to reveal. And that isn’t unique to Christianity; any human organization is vulnerable to that same corruption
My torment is not being able to put the blinders on and live in ignorance. I took the red pill, damn it! 🤣
Thank you, Dave…truly appreciate your thoughtful read and the sincerity behind it. 🙏🔥🕯️🖤
Yet Jesus, as one source puts it, 'reserved His strongest condemnation for the hypocritical religious folk of the day, not for ordinary, humble folk'. No need to 'Bible-bash' ordinary 'common' folk. Not that all religious leaders are hypocrites.
Similar to animal cruelty - there's huge amounts of good done to animals in contrast to the cruelty man does to them.
Or man's inhumanity to man - in contrast, there's huge amounts of good and does to fellow man
P says...... nope, not getting a word in here, P. lol.
Oh no, P's got in - He says he wouldn't mind some Biaxial Parallax - but he doesn't know what it is! heehee.
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