Failure (193 of 365)

Day 193 of the 365 day poem challenge.

Word of the day argute meaning "shrewd."

Failure 

Reading stories of long fought battles and hard fought alliances

Reading stories of helpless victims and argute defilers

Reading stories of (perhaps) wasted efforts and wasted lives

Reading stories that are inconvenient and non-ending

Reading stories about relentless forces of darkness and nature 

Reading stories of impossible struggles of tsunamis, volcanoes of famines of wars of corrupt rulers 

Reading stories of false hope felt too late

Reading stories of selfishness without remorse or recompense

Reading stories of victimisation

Reading stories of the helpless become dependent and then of the dependent slammed with sharp inflammatory stones

Reading stories of condemnation and rejection of religion of secularism 

Reading stories where there is no truce

Reading stories of rebels and regimes

Reading stories of countries lost and founded and raped and pillaged and historically languishing or historically spurned 

Reading stories of twisted orthodoxy and radical affiliations 

Reading stories of conflicting ideals and the plunge to violence

Reading redundant histories

Reading repeated mistakes

Reading forgotten failures of wars and conflicts and where it all went wrong...