HOME* Main Poem Index* January Poem List* Next Poem Trust Just Failed Machines were built to advance perspectives Laden with concern of functional views Applied by teams of social detectives To the problems of chattle in the pews Greed set within participants for times Those who volunteered to allocate doles Mesmerized by piles of nickels and dimes Red hearts turned black as help morphed into trolls Portions of machines redirected work Garnishing resources by tapping flows Much like vampires other labors would shirk While the field of victims passively grows Control of assistance grew politics Itself corrupted by carnal actions Priests used to desecrate moral ethics Fragmenting all church dissatisfactions Organizational patrons of gloom Intruded and insisted that their way Would prevent futures constructed by gloom By killing and burning throughout the day Religious paths are polluted by blood Splattered by swords where innocence was nailed History lies face down in foreign mud Where hope was stripped and trust just simply failed (c)ERA 08:49 pM 1/27/03