The Cold War Was a Failure

If there were no passion there would be nothing of worth in our world.

We are scared of looking inward not because of what is there but what we may find.

THE COLD WAR WAS A FAILURE

Hello America,

The Cold War was a failure.

We sought to secure peace

with an arms race

the likes of which humanity has never seen

before or since.

We teetered on the brink

for many years

beneath the specter

of a Soviet colossus 

ready to hammer us down.

We goaded them

into bankruptcy.

Victory was declared.

Our eyes could now view

the landscape before us,

more terrifying than ever before.

Our infrastructure has crumbled,

schools have become holding cells

for future consumers,

docility has become the norm,

critical thought has given way

to so called 'reality programming',

we stare at screens all day and night

a cheap facsimile of life.

Our glowering enemy

has become 

a sea of small hands

all reaching out

to grab us.

Victory  was achieved

at too great a cost.