If We Never Learn

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Written for Karen Jone's Stevie Wonder Prompt. I picked the song Pastime Paradise.

Caught between a glamorized past and an imploding present, Future's hope hangs upon the scales of a timid fate. A country splintering, A modern-day civil war where words fly by like bullets. Family and friends become nothing but mere collateral, To radicalised ideals and misplaced allegiances. While the rest of the world unites, Watching as the sparks of hate ignite. As flames of blind loyalty sweep through cities. Idiocracy now rules the ashes, The clock is ticking down. Will you cower in the shadows, Waiting for the winds of change to blow over, Or will you fight, come hell or high water?

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