Secrets

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernurishment. Robert Maynard Hutchins
Jan 17, 1899-May 17, 1977

Secrets

It comes not from a sudden ambush
Or an unknown evil source
It happens while you are sipping tea
Right on your own front porch

It happens while you are so intrigued
About the latest Hollywood death
That all the news on all the channels
Cover it in every breath

They'll run right down the middle
As you chase the wide reciever
Even though you know who has the ball
Is in fact the great deceiver

They'll hit a run right over the fence
Just as you creep up for a bunt
They are so atuned to tricking you
They've practiced every stunt

So while you're barely seeing
What the politicians have in mind
Wake up and question what they do
Before you're totally in a bind

Marian
June 28, 2009