Dread walks across faces like a public skipping stone
tossed out into a pool of humanity.
Jobs have marched overseas on the backs of ships and planes and pain
humps the body in the throes of depression and hopelessness.
Everyone is looking for the spark that ignites the soul into action.
Everyone is looking for the other to ignite-
set off a Hundredth Monkey phenomenon
affecting thousands to lionize all against the Betters
plan of destruction, here first.
.
Fat chance.
.
Our collective souls would rather fight and rail against the oppressor;
but if suppression of our soul's fire is on the manifest
so be it,
with one voice all free souls cry out "When hell freezes over!"
Touch, spark-to-spark ignite in spontaneous
combustion, rise.
.
Comic relief.
.

We were a smiling nation back then during the Reagan years,
in stark contrast to the present dregs of the day
in high places.
Today in the public square, once a thriving center of activity, no tree
stands, and the square stands bare. People don't meet and mix in a happy way
with the present dregs of the day. No. One is bound to lower covered head to chest,
eyes focused on the path below to avoid the eyes on poles,
in boxes, attached to telephone wires, restaurant tables, buses, windows,
floors and walls; all monitored and used in public to search privates-
spy docs manning endoscopes.

There is no hope.

"Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end.
We meant to change a nation, and instead we changed the world."
-- Ronald Reagan

Reading the words of President Reagan's Farewell Address
to the Nation on January 11, 1989, brought back all the good
one had for the country and its People.
It seemed, no other time in our history would there be
such a sense of cohesion, sense of destiny,
sense of preordained greatness in truth and human spirit,
than was encapsulated in the mere phrase
"Tear down this wall, Mr. Gorbachev."
One has to marvel at the audacity of such a command
leveled at a Russian leader.
Marveling still, at the warmth and sincerity of a man
could fundamentally put an end to the Cold War.
Such a man was he, President Reagan.

It behooves our Betters to take note
the People have not forgotten what a good man can accomplish:
end the Cold War, triumph over communism,
restore pride in America, here at home,
throughout the world.

Frustration mounted as evidence grew for complete take-over.
No one was able to pinpoint the exact time the Betters gained power.
Some say it was in April, 2007,
a time when prominent Betters refused to vacate
revered official positions and titled posts,
caught in a myriad of corruption and public-fleecing;
they had violated the public trust.
People became enraged when they realized
the Betters were accountable to no one.
The country had its own quasi-Reichstag with 2 capitol landmarks
heavily damaged by fire on the same day.
The fact that two 3-alarm fires of historic buildings
on the same day was considered "unusual"
the Chief on-board for a mere month, remarked
it was his "baptism of fire."
Emphasis on self being the national daily fare.

It was an Insidious Happening

It was well in-place by the time the People spoke up.

Oh, there were some who knew of the Plan for a decade or two
before it bubbled up in the nation's consciousness.
The Hundredth Monkey principle at work, if you will.
Mountain of evidence for the Plan's agenda finally came out.
People chose to downplay or totally dismiss its lethality.
Basically, it all came out thanks to the net,
for the most part.