<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442414" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>So Much Trust Has Faded Away</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much trust has faded away, <br>From a once rich and vast abundant sea...<br>We, <br>You and I took for granted.<br>As we sailed along upon its greatness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now we face a stormy turbulance, <br>Of corruption and deceit! <br>No one thought could happen.<br>But it is! <br>And it is changing rapidly...<br>The reality, <br>Few if any are prepared to see.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The one at the helm, <br>Intentionally 'stayed the course'.<br>With a promise to 'shock and awe'<br>At any cost.<br>But suffer we the citizens...<br>At a price to pay at our loss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who earned his confidence, <br>Tried to convince with lies...<br>A direction that led us to this dead end, <br>Would someday in our minds make sense.<br>But none of what has happened does! <br>Not even vacuous explanations...<br>That got us here surrounded by, <br>Exorbitant, excessive and total devastation! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So much trust has faded away, <br>From a once rich and vast abundant sea...<br>We, <br>You and I took for granted.<br>As we sailed along upon its greatness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And those who led us into this mess, <br>Will abandoned us with pensions to spend! <br>As we tried hard...<br>To keep whatever integrity we have left.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even that is highly suspected.<br>By the few neighbors who can not believe...<br>So many allowed this destruction, <br>When apparently closed eyes...<br>And experienced minds, <br>Had been too drugged by greed to see! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can be blamed now...<br>For an evaporating patriotism! <br>When from the top...<br>The ball was dropped! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And punctured never again to return, <br>To a game played that required it...<br>To have significance and a respectable bounce! <br>Even the one now who is new and will lead...<br>Is expected to have a magic wand up his sleeve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442414" data-title="So Much Trust Has Faded Away de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="So much trust has faded away, From a once rich and vast abundant sea... We, You and I took for granted. As we sailed along upon its greatness. Now we face a stormy turbulance, Of corruption and deceit! No one thought could happen. But it is! ..."></div> </div> </div>

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