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Fear and folly in tandem come,

And in their sway we have often run,

From what’s true today to yesterday’s vision,

Though that which was is no more the mission.

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So how long do we stand,

Blind,

As the evidence mounts?

How long do we sit,

Still,

Before the body counts?

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Sowing and reaping the violence prone,

X-box, vampires, a society grown,

Increasingly assorted, beyond scope of a center,

No common cause, each citizen dissenter.

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Yet innocence once ours,

at least so we believed,

E pluribus unum,

at birth thus conceived.

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