The fear and the terror,
In the eyes of the people,
who witnessed something,
Very rarely seen.
I look and see the shock,
Of utter unbelievability.
Why are we witnessing,
an evil that has been,
Repeated several times,
in the last thousand years.
The sad part it was predicted
and everyone ignored it.
Thousands have died since.
So is your interpretation War vs. Disease?
One man alone predicted everything.
As they say history has an
idea of repeating itself.
So why did we not listen
to the warning?
Loud discussions never categorized as arguments
Spoken at a register unheard of on most days
Come to fruition here
All that is said falling between a purple unicorn and a 4.2 on the Richter scale
Either niceties to the point of unbelievability
Or disaster to the point of collapsibility
Exchanging highly charged words packaged inside cheerful familial wrappings
The unspoken tradition lives on
Merry Christmas
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