Our Not So All-of-Sudden Downfall

It shatters a thousand ways
They try to pick up the remnants
so as to leave in one piece

Authority is a dangerous gift.
The words affect them stronger than sticks,
and flog them shamefully better than any stone.

The sweet pleasure of brotherhood,
becomes just a fantasy,
along with everything else we're told as kids.

It's the scene from "The Lottery."
All are torn down,
belittled and stripped of any self-dignity.

Crowds huddle around and laugh at your misfortunes they've claimed as your own.
Stolen value is smeared into the dirt with heavy black shoes,
and kicked to the curb into the gutter's green slime.

What monster could have so much power,
 make you  lower your head from the skies to Earth?
You? Me?
Both.

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