Michael Coy Poet Sonnet

Watergate

Mubarak is a case in point. You leave 
a man on top too long, he loses track 
of what he is, beginning to believe 
he's Pericles. Thus white shades into black. 

Magruder, Coulson, Mitchell, Liddy, Dean - 
they all lined up to help him tell the lies. 
The end can never justify the means. 
Who put the blinkers on such piercing eyes? 

Up to this point, the office stood for Good, 
all that could be hopeful in mankind. 
But Nixon grinned, as only Nixon could - 
a thousand placemen wilfully went blind. 

The strangest thing about these law-destroyers, 
these wreckers of the State? They were all lawyers.

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Darren White February 28, 2017 at 2:07 AM They really were all lawyers??? (What does that say about you ;) ) I didn't know that.. I had to look up Coulson and Mitchell, but luckily knew about the other ones. Or luckily? Wish history was different. What a great sonnet... Michael Coy February 28, 2017 at 3:26 AM Thank you, Darren! And good point about lawyers ... I naively want it to be a noble profession, but it isn't.