Cup standing straight, power tower, take a drink,
Of the lust that world is swimming in to sink.
Not aware, to think, that we're skating the con's rink.

Madness that the lie will perpetuate a truth,
A man's heart cannot earn what it's never been due.
Naive because its allegiance has been squandered on fools.


Conned men nurse the lie that they have what they want,
But instead of sweet endings they settled for the means at the front.
Con men nurse the lie that they will get what they want,
But instead of sweet endings they'll wakeup where devils haunt.

Subtle snares: mistaking means for ends

C.S. Lewis: The Great Divorce

Page 73-74

There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself...as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ. Ye see it in small matters. Did ye never know a lover of books that with all his first editions and signed copies had lost the power to read them? Or an organizer of charities that had lost all love for the poor? It is the subtlest of all the snares.