Manipulators
Mark 7:6 New English Translation (NET Bible)
6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
Manipulators
Go through the mind to the heart
are common ways of the world.
Fill that form in inner thoughts
and thus the heart will swirl.
Until it is full up to the brim
with hazy emptiness.
As we race through life up to the end
with "artificial" holiness.
Fixation of the mind
our heart has now become.
An extension of some useless thoughts
that you forgot before they began
A clone of your environment,
an extension of its call,
just right below the surface
with a fear that you may fall.
The stench of your own rottenness
becomes perfume to your own senses
and you wonder why others hold their nose
in your presence and your denseness.
Jan Wienen