The Excoriation of Dark Power

It is the custom of Man to decapitate power at the crown, removing the head and leaving the body untouched. Such is not the practice of Gods, who commence at the feet to first remove the underpinnings of the ersatz prince. The miscreants of dark power rule not a kingdom of their own making, but are the natural excrescent product of organized barbarism. Both the love and fear of their minions catapults them to their station, through and by them is their power buoyed and preserved. To remove one Hydra head merely stimulates the rise of others equally athirst for power. To urge forth the positive growth and spawn of despots is a task that forever remains unfinished, hence the reluctance of the Gods to fall upon such pointless labor. Rather they dissever from below, with a multitude of kinder cuts, disquieting not the solicitude of demagogues. Aroused not by the unapparent diminution and absence of subjects never known, the once lofty throne reduces to insular sconce for the poltroon king while the ring of sycophants remains thick. Wherewith the wise approach the ignoble stricture from below, beneath the haughty gaze of prideful power, thencefrom to cast the final brack. Herein the flurry of general anarchy is skirted, and the battle eminent pits only a sole impotent errant to antipodean foils. A saner confrontation then emerges, where grace and forgiveness are also, perchance to prevail on ax and block. Glimpsed then are the mercies of the Almighty, in whose nature it is to end all confrontation in conciliation not ruination. The last head to fall must be the greatest villain, to topple or bow only the bearer may decide.