Appeals

It would be good if monsters, humans with neither feelings nor moral sense, committed torture. History shows this rarely to be the case. I offer my own paltry take on torture.

Appeals

How can the tortured appeal
to the torturer? Morality
will not work,
for the torturer acts
from other principles
such as building utopia.
The torturer responds
he is merely an instrument
aiding the grand enterprise.

How can the tortured extinguish
the flames inside the torturer's soul?
Ultimate freedom fuels the flames.
It's as if the torturer is a god.