<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=445552" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>What Began As Folly</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even truth can not end their dementia.<br>Intoxicated needs to have a fix to ease pain, <br>Something begins crumbling from deep<br>With them<br>And a chase of booze and pills...<br>Numb their chills from ills they get! <br>As the news they see on TV sets, <br>Upsets a cracking understanding.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Breaking down fences they now share...<br>With neighbors who come, <br>Aware<br>A mental disease has infected everyone.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Crazed 'were' the ones <br>They lifted upon their shoulders.<br>Praising their opinions...<br>Of what they saw ahead! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling the power to reinterpret instead, <br>With visions that were tainted<br>From lofty positions they painted 'red'.<br>To gather those below them to build fear <br>In their heads! <br>And they giggled with glee.<br>Thinking how easy their plans would be.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This will have to be tremendous...<br>To introduce and implement! <br>We have to create an enemy everyone resents! <br>We have to do something center stage and effective.<br>Something that will captivate<br>An audience<br>Easily decepted! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then they came down to Earth...<br>With the fear of lost strength and glory! <br>Gory scenes of screams and shouts.<br>People caught on camera running crazed about! <br>Misery and grief became colored with alerts...<br>Investigations probe and find, <br>Minds crushed were done by those of 'dirt'! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And visions that had no chance to come true! <br>Were shared in the eyes of only a few.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even truth can not end their dementia.<br>Intoxicated needs to have a fix to ease pain, <br>Something begins crumbling from deep<br>Within them burning! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And a chase of booze and pills, <br>Numb their chills from ills they get! <br>The news they see on TV sets, <br>Upsets a cracking understanding.<br>And what began as folly...<br>Stirs the World in much regret!</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=445552" data-title="What Began As Folly de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Even truth can not end their dementia. Intoxicated needs to have a fix to ease pain, Something begins crumbling from deep With them And a chase of booze and pills... Numb their chills from ills they get! As the news they see on TV sets, Upsets ..."></div> </div> </div>

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