Up Then Down

We dreamed the dream and against all odds It came out true To reach the heights we soared to We clawed ferociously At any obstruction And trampled the weak who Slowed us down We were one sighted and mean We had no patience Our aim to rule an empire Could never be Deviated from Our destiny was created Fed And maintained Only by us The world was our mirror We had no self- image worries Karma of course called The old adage of what goes around comes around Boomeranged on us and savagely humbled us Not on our knees but face down We will of course never admit defeat willingly Nor expect to be down for long Arrogance can never be in short supply For our work has not yet been done The brute force of the rejection of our master plan By all and sundry Masquerading as bad luck Has made us bitter We are without wings and means But we vehemently plot revenge A vicious cycle we have initiated We have no one to blame We likened ourselves to gods on earth Who can do no wrong In our own eyes We find no sympathy Our allies have been reformed as Enemies who are no longer forced to comply With our all-consuming wishes We have no friends And never had it seems Our disdain and scalding apathy Sterilised our environment We could not see nor tell What monsters we were We created fear And hunger for a revolution That has now brought us to our knees