Fool's Gold Rush - POEM of the MONTH!

Fool’s Gold Rush
 
There once was gold in the hills
But a rush of fools in the city
Now hand out pans filled
With empty promises
As common sense
Was strip-mined
Without a claim
 
There once was reason in the halls
But a rush of fools in the city
Now hand out lull theories

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by Giuseppe Milo is licensed under CC BY 3.0.

On pans of relative truth
While clear rhetoric
Was strip-mined
Without a claim
 
There once was a golden state
But a rush of fools in the city
Now hand out faded paper
As a dredged people
Walk the street
Of fool’s gold
With a claim
 
There once was the land of the free
But fools rushed to the capitol city
Invaded the right to our privacy

Denied God’s offer of eternity
Handed out redefined laws
And rewritten histories
As an unarmed people
Faced a pending death
With or without gold
Stripped of a claim
Or just plain
Stripped