It is easier to destroy than to build.

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In his bombastic and idealistic guild

There fumed a peculiar man on the fringe who willed

His resources heavily on full stop ends of destruction,

Thus ends the introduction: "It's easier to destroy than to build."

All he had to do

Was look and see flaws

In which he could pierce his claws

As he set the men against each other

Unveiling their different wants and objectives

And thus the strong rope that once bonded began to tatter

And the spirit of brotherhood didn't dance but sat there

It sat. It withered. It died.

Though the men still flew high

Their banner, the thing which lied

As everything was okay, wasn't it? It always was.

But divisions struck deep while contempt grew high

Became blurred the lines between a friend and an enemy

Impetuously words were thrown as boiled dangerous suspicion

The pot began to ring—louder, LOUDER

BOOM

What once was contained

Now removed

Prostrated on the floor

No more

It's this the same—this thing

Between men and within individuals

You set part against the other

And the system grows sour

All hypocrites, all liars,

All demons or self-righteous friars

Why were they together, anyway?

Who were we? Who am I?

Were we not united in arbitrary revelry?

Conditioned and conditioned only

To these meaningless ceremonies?

Alas, all that blew!

Apart, I suppose, they're free

There's that to see

But aren't they all lost?

Yet they weren't really together

Their fraternity was nothing

If a mere common man can come

Say it all unreal

And prove himself right

That night

The darkness of that period

Brought me insight

'Tis harder to construct than on fire to light


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