I am haunted by a vision.
There is ample land.
There is ample seed.
There are ample waters.
Yet, because of wars,
All of this has disappeared.
Men live in domes
Where the sky is bronze
And the ground is iron.
Israel is protected by Iron Dome
Which is a dome
And not a missile system.
Outside of the domes
Are dirt, bare, deserted wastelands.
Trillions of men live in termite clustered houses;
And they ready to fight the domes.
To bring down the domes’ wall.
Outside, there is communism.
Inside there is Utopian capitalism.
Outside, the men are sticks;
They are tiny men, feral,
With breast implants and orifices;
Genderless, sexless, raceless…
Techno Cyber Punks---
A homogeneous blob
Fed by injections.
They swarm the pleasure domes
Getting destroyed by nuclear weapons
And their blood becomes rain.

Upon my search,
I have seen men striving to do good.
And I found that strife has created great harm.
Men would rather look inside themselves
Where they find the utmost assurance that they are good.
Then they destroy trying to conform mankind to the model of goodness
In themselves.

It is simple.
Mozi proved the Golden Rule was logical.
Yet even he had gotten things wrong.
Jesus--- His moral teachings were perfect.
No other genius in history can say the same.
He told men to call Him teacher, and nobody else.

I saw an evangelist struggle to understand
An Atheist’s remarks that good and truth are self evident.
These same individuals want to prove the Earth is young
And that we had not evolved from apes.
My doctrine is that we are only apes---
Yet too many have been into the void and seen what I have seen.
The women who found the idol of Shiva was thrown back into this world
Cruelly.

Christians simply do not get it.
So many of us have been indoctrinated in the existentialist claim
Of their being no objective value.
I speak as an atheist today, when I was an atheist,
That I could see there was objective truth.
I could see there was good and evil.
I ought not concern Christians to disenfranchise faith in it
As the result of this ministry of nihilism has spun the world
Into chaos.
We preach the Gospel.
The Law must be self evident
Or else there can be no God.
And the law is simple:
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
“Love others, as you love yourself.”
The first commandment is fulfilled in the second.

The bitterness---as I read my atheist character---
Of this nihilism is that it's taught as an alternative to Christ.
When, Christ can only be God if His law is self evident
And the words He spoke independent of Him.
That even if He did not exist, these laws were still true.

And when we see the laws He preached were true
We find ourselves approached by the solitary wisdom
That an abjectly poor Carpenter’s bastard had found truth;
And not only found it, but all of it.
That this man, who couldn’t possibly have been educated,
Discovered something that many of the great sages had only come by
Through much learning.

And when you find this,
The case begins to be ever more strong that Jesus is the Christ.
Men are not capable of finding truths so potent on their own;
Without help from others.
Men are not creative enough.
Not even I.

And I find myself at the first piece of wisdom I’d ever found.
Truth is self evident.
Good is self evident.
Nietzsche and the Existentialists were wrong.
It takes a fool hardened by philosophy to not see it
That there is meaning to life;
And that meaning is to love others in the way we ourselves want to be loved.
And that solitary truth is why Christ became our teacher.
And how we know He is God Come in the Flesh
Is that He taught truths which were self evident
And persuasive enough to convince any rational mind.
And if we’re honest,
The preacher talked about this dirty old rapist---
The boogie man of the modern age, 
Is the Hitleresque rapist which all know is wrong.
For the only two morals today are do not kill and do not rape.
Yet, the greater morals are found inherently true
By the discord we experience today---
And knowing that we are imperfect
It becomes clear that we need a savior.
Not because meaning must be found in the Bible
But because the Bible described self evident meaning
Which can be found independent of it or God.

The Golden Rule is logical.
Hypocrisy is illogical.
Yet being empowered to do what’s right
That requires God’s power.

Never was the happy so divided
Than the day they sat upon their bench;
The Giant spoke to them, towering---
Look upon thy children, are they not different?
Indoctrinate them in savagery, like my heritage.
The little one cries over the violence of thy race
Upon my own. Why dost thou dare to give them home
When they are so different from thee?
These children ought to have starved to death
Or be given to those of like skin.
Was it thy guilt that caused thee to love thine own children?

I was in the waves of the ocean
Body surfing. One wave came,
And overwhelmed me.
My back had been taken to my head
And I snapped. A green aura
Surrounded me, and the feeling of peace.
A voice spoke to me.
"This is the feeling you like."
What's next is unutterable.
I asked Him, “Are there any other religions.” 
He said, “Not for you, no.”
I said, “What about for anyone else?”
God said, “No. Only Jesus Saves.”
I then remembered my life,
And He told me, “That was the past.”
I said, “I want to have a wife.”
God said to me, “I am your Husband.”
I then asked Him, “Can I go to the Kingdom?”
The LORD said, “No, you haven’t received treasure.”
Then I said, “I wish to receive treasure,
“More treasure than anyone else.”
And the LORD said to me,
“I will allow it,” and I was taken up out of the waves
And my split back was set back into place
And I could feel my body rearranging into its normal fixture.
In the background I could see a hooded figure
Who saw me, and then flashed away.
The hooded figure was my mortal enemy.
I asked, “Who is that?” To my girlfriend.
She said, “That’s nobody.”
And I was back.

Sodom and Gomorrah.
Canaan.
Israel.
Babylon.
Persia.
Greece.
Rome.

Sodom and Gomorrah.
Canaan.
Israel.
Babylon.
Persia.
Greece.
Rome.

Overpopulation?
No.
Idleness.
Yes.
Sin.
Yes.

The solution is work.
Creativity.
Self reliance.
Law.

Two roads diverged in a verdant wood
And I being one traveler took the level one.
Yet, upon the willow’s grove, where the oak and elm
Had stood, I turned my way back
And instead took the path with the sharp hill.
Before the open girth of the path,
A yellow caution sign had been placed.
And I, knowing the easier path would lead to bad health
Took the more difficult path.
I sturdily marched up the grade
And felt my body strengthening.
And then it dawned on me when I crested that glorious hill
That sometimes it is safer to take the more difficult road.

The first stanza is Bob Dylan witnessing the race riots and is reflecting on American Racism.
The second stanza is a man being rejected by an easy woman.
The third stanza is about the end of the world, when the stars and moon are darkened, what people will be doing.
The fourth is about a woman deciding to join the clergy, and thereby never experience life.
The fifth is about a man with a false sense of intelligence and a robin hood complex, who was famous long ago for an obscure talent, but lost it due to drug addiction.
The sixth is about a psychologist with patients who are involuntarily celebate, and that's the problem with them.
The seventh is about a priest encouraging a man for courtship, but ultimately he will fail because of the preacher's bad advice.
The eighth is about the military industrial complex, how spy networks and insurance agents work in tandem, and oppress those who "Know Too Much.”
The ninth is about intellectuals who argue among one another, and the pop ideologies which divide them.
The tenth is Bob Dylan receiving a letter from an old acquaintance who mentioned some of the people he sung about in this poem.

The Desolation Row is the depression caused by these situations.

The contraption sat,
A mechanical
Machine, which told truth.

The very fact truth
Could be told by it
Proved God does exist.

For truth is true, she
Weighed at fifteen stone.
Numbers of matter,

Two hundred and ten
Pounds are fifteen stone.
Yet, there is that which

Is weighed; Atheists
Get caught up in the
Number theory. So,

It is,---Humanist
Philosophers find
Moral principles

Are measurable,
Yet they fail to find
The complete picture. 

That, Jack, is why we
Need Christ. To sort it
Out, and show us how to live.

God, being good, set
An example, taught
Lived and died for us.

The reason we know
He is God, is truth
Was found by Him. Which,

Men, the great sages,
Had found radical
Bits of, but Christ found

Them all. That is why
We call Him Teacher.
What is measured of

Faith, was completely
Found by His allwise
Flourishing brow.