When art eludes
most common sense,
And truth succumbs
to tolerance;
When darkness comes,
but call it light;
When virtue’s vice,
and wicked’s right;
When good is bad
and reason ends;
When in his mind
a man suspends
The will to know
where wisdom dawns;
When age-old words,
their meanings gone,
Are without form
and void of thought;
Then no is yes,
And is, is not.