"No value is higher than self-esteem,
but you’ve invested it in
counterfeit securities—
and now your morality
has caught you in a trap
where you are forced to protect your self-esteem
by fighting for the creed of
self-destruction.
The grim joke is on you:
that need of self-esteem,
which you’re unable to explain or to define,
belongs to my morality,
not yours;
it’s the objective token of my code,
it is my proof within your own soul."
