Seeds of Apathy

 

As the rhetorical thunder
now just outside our walls
grew in volume
we knew Ignorance
whose threat we had neglected
would be here by nightfall
to devour truth
which could no longer be guarded
by our feckless institutions..

Panic now dominates the realm

as blame is dispensed in all directions

by those who were charged with our protection...

If only they had applied this new found energy

to combat the insidious forces of Lethargy

which slowly eroded our fortifications

into soon to be useless rubble

A tarnished monument

of society's shameful capitulation 

to the forces of darkness

we allowed in with open arms