When they speak from both sides of their mouths
When they wage a holy war for an ethnic purpose
When nation and state and culture are conflated
When the lines are blurred between fallacy and history
When turncoats hold more sway than the patient and the faithful
When men claim to speak in the voice of God
When God is measured by the size of an army
When woe become the doom-song for a zeitgeist
When lines are drawn in the sand with fire
When blood is not enough to stake a claim to inheritance
When a mirror bears the same weight as a hectare
When closed eyes with spears give way to bibles and guns
When religion no longer knows the power of a prayer
When the military is the chapel that dictates our values
When power is a function not of purpose, but control
When entire generations refuse to continue their bloodlines
When the genocide of a people is justified as vengeance
When lives are lost thanks to buearaucractic technicalities
We know that we have reached the end of an age where sanity has failed to prevail
a nomad speaks 