The Lotus Eaters

The hippie haven concept hides
Hypocrites, harlots and has-beens
Stale dreams for a quite demise
Tiny minds leading the blind
Who will tell them they made a mistake?
Who is going to say its been left too late?
No-one will hear
.

Tears on the side of cheeky freedom
Sneers at the bride's sneaky impregnation
And the liberation of three score and
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
And ten
Oh dears
That mighty rise
The technological sky is the limit
.

A war bore the brunt of a generation's virtue
No truth left to deny
Surreptitious spying behind enemy lines
And at the end of the line
Fears
.

They feared THE REDS
Never having to live with THE BOMB
In their heads
They denied their children
Childhood beds
To LIVE WHILE YOU CAN
And sleep in
.

Do they plan yet another WAR TO END WARS?
.

In the rubble came the mistake
GRAB WHAT YOU CAN
YOU GET WHAT YOU TAKE
An ideal to appeal to the freedom of youth
But the truth was entirely different
Let them be
They will
.