Crumbled Assumptions

 

It was purely a rhetorical question

Not designed to elicit 
any kind of measured response
since this was never designed to be
an info seeking interrogative

Since the range of answers varied

at a volume not anticipated
the power of our core assumptions

weakened and crumbled
as an insidious cloud of uncertainty

was permanently created
undercutting the potency

of our now discredited

no longer absolute narrative