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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

The bunch of sycophants eyeing me in my mess

By Atok Dan

I was made to belief that I had done enough to deserve the pride,

Yet my hands were still drizzling with bloods of the needy

I couldn’t afford to retract on realizing my own mess,

But then time could not agree with me in principle

In the fall of the night, the weight of injustice dawn on me

The mess was done to the brim of no doubt

For I ought to do a lot in reversing that mess,

While the majority were eyeing me in disguise,

Not ready to tell me how I had messed it

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The only watchful society-staring at me amidst my stupidity

I could only regret in the flock of those who flatter at me in my stupidity

Good that I did learn on my own mess though no remedy

I had learned that I could be that stupid

That I could only be right if I do it right

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All the sycophants that surrounded me were only there to rejoice

Rejoice over me when deep down the pit to death of falsehood

When all that I thought I had done right were overturned to a shame

To even beyond those that I thought were sinners of history

All my deeds fell to the apathy of greed

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Because I had failed to accept the wishes of those I thought weak

For I was first falsely fortified into what my brain failed to comprehend

Yet they deserted me when I needed their hands to reverse my failures

The tide of wrong history had befallen me amidst seas of wise

Yet I thought power had invigorated me with righteous

And they all pin it down into book as my only mess

A mess enough to undo my ancient wasted wisdom

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