On the Wings of Hope: Prose (Recognized)

Sentence

"Stand up, the court is beginning!"

"Stand up, everyone. Thanks! Now sit down, please. I declare a hearing on a poet's case opened. I would like to remind both the prosecutor and the advocate that we are dealing with an extremely dangerous social element, masking under an assumed name, and unreasonably stating about the beginning of yet not totally clear cardinal changes of all world order."

"An earth world order, mister judge. So the accused one told us."

"Yes, I thank you, an accuser, for this clarification. All visible earth world order. Such naivety!"

"Mister judge, shall I start?"

"Certainly. We will first listen to the prosecution. You certainly have something to tell us?"

"Indeed I have! So, well, first of all, I would like to ask jurymen and everybody in this hall to pay attention to this if it's even possible to say so, creative individual. Just look at what mad sight he possesses, how these very eyes sparkle with some strange and daring fire! And what an unprecedented impudence it is – to write about eternal life and potential human immortality! We, both judges and admirers of classical literature, have learned since school years one simple truth: trust, but check! And this very check of his frankly crazy literature trash cannot withstand any serious criticism. Mankind has been learning this for a long time – and it's proven by views of true representatives of Christian belief, officially fixed on a paper – that a human as a being, possibly possessing some sort of soul, still lives one and only one life and is resolutely incapable of revival in new appearances. Let us not take into consideration all that absurd, flying from mouths of those so-called spiritual leaders of the East, for they do not even worth a single bit of criticism. What complete nonsense is the statement, that a man does not die permanently, please tell, gathered Lords? Alas, by the will of God himself we were made mortal, for from the ashes we are born and to the ashes, we go. Alas, but such is the world order that we are capable to comprehend... and during seven thousands of years we, I bet, have managed to understand it up and down! And, just because man is a being essentially frankly and suddenly mortal, so, these "writings" about endless life and, as a consequence, the New World, is simply a delirium of a feeble-minded! And that very individual, facing you, is indeed a mad one, for only crazy ones are capable to create similar stuff so selflessly and disinterestedly.

I confirm, may be accused one really possesses some creative gift, but who can give a guarantee, that these are not the intrigues of enemies of the human race, desiring to ruin and destroy all our stability once and for all? We just cannot make up with his nonsense, for his statements undermine all basis of the managed statehood, which we have been building for quite a while. And, besides, – they undermine almost all our cultural beliefs, all our traditions, foundations, rituals, habits, and even prejudices, eventually! Here is before you, mister judge, and I will not escape this word, is simply and plainly a spiritual terrorist! He is the enemy of our entire society, of all our ideals, for which we have been preparing this very society for many years already. He is plainly a madman! He is capable of ruining all our tradition, our power, all that stability, which we have been trying to achieve. He just simply scoffs at people and brainwashes them... They would better watch that television, drink, and guzzle, after all, than read so mind-corrupting verses!

The past cannot come back and be returned – and this means that men cannot be revived, it's absolutely impossible, I simply refuse to believe that, mister judge – and I hope that you share my fears, concerning similar potential sudden changes of spiritual consciousness of people, conducted by us. This change is absolutely undesired by us – as well as the world does not desire similar madmen.