Cautionary Tales for Later Concern - a poem

Terribly articulate are the naysayers that we often find ourselves allured

by their

sense of actualization, and their sense
of realization and their
reluctance in admitting any fault

we find that in mouths of devils we are accustomed to attracted

due to their

convictions and the way they scribble out manifestos
in order to convince their masses that they
don't walk around with horns and pitchforks
and hoof feet

Terribly unpleasant that the babes we seek to protect are often coaxed

into believing these

naysayers and predators, for they speak good game, but have no
substance beyond knowing the needed script to get young girls
to unbutton their pants. Let's not confuse age with knowledge

for I have witnessed the most compassion and knowing from

children who

do not speak to devour their prey or to reduce people
of puddles of weakening ash, as they decimate
the worlds they grew up on,

no the little ones are the vegetation grown out of volcanic soil
and we must do our best to remember that even smiles
hide daggers.