Seeds of Apathy

As the rhetorical thunder
now just outside our walls
grew in volume
we knew Ignorance
whose threat we had neglected
would be here by nightfall
to devour truth
which could no longer be guarded
by our feckless institutions..

Panic now dominates the realm
as blame is dispensed in all directions
by those who were charged with our protection...

If only they had applied this new found energy
to combat the insidious forces of Lethargy
which slowly eroded our fortifications
into soon to be useless rubble...

A tarnished monument
of society's shameful capitulation 
to the forces of darkness
we allowed in with open arms