home Poem List next poem Economic Retractions Alliances with Europe are shaking Questions of support bite into the past Investments may well withdraw the making Of fake progress in nation's which can't last Such is the state of inter involvement Fraud flies banners of mutual assistance Sliding occurs in loci's convolvement Numbers times efforts points to resistance Markets respond unexpectedly still When much wider swings should be observed Computers quick to respond to programmed will Invest - divest say what level's preserved Misunderstanding of such hidden facts Cause flagrant insults to ferret out blame Liars in office are covering tracks While positing sacred rules to some game What's real escapes adaptive strategies Haunting the twisted fate of some peoples Who now languish before hesitancies Beneath their pilloried christian steeples At times it seems men simply walk away Listening to social shards shattering As darkness pervades common views of day Light loses to shadows when pattering (c)ERA 07:33 AM 2/12/03