Unwilling/Unable

Unwilling/unable to course correct
much less detect   or acknowledge
       the fact they'd been led far astray

unwilling/unable to walk away
from a ruler and movement  that of late
              had taken to flagrantly cruising
on a heading one-eighty from the one
in which they were blatantly promised
they'd be ever so righteously moving

unwilling/unable to properly feel
       or deal with the real dissonance
that should come from what seems
as good as having switched teams
by betraying their ostensible principles

unwilling/unable to reassess
       so as to wisely avoid the mess
              of a plainly disgraceful result

       they wound up being trapped
              in what gradually devolved
                     into an unmistakable cult.


If only some one or thing
had the skill and the will to spring them
              from their self-imposed prisons;
if only their egos had allowed them
       to admit they'd been ruthlessly duped

if only if only   but the cold cruel truth
only confirms that the truth usually burns
       when you find yourself hitched to a lie
so to kill the pain they feigned being free
of troubles  in their copium-blown bubbles;
in a cult whose existence they fully denied

too proud to divorce the blinkering force
that built — and kept building higher —
       the monstrous walls of self-deceit
that shielded their newfound delusions
from the view of their once-open eyes

       unaware they'd changed course
       and were now in support
       of what they once so rightly despised

tragically blind as they were
to their shocking  unconscious adoption
of positions  which till recently they swore
       could not be any more worthy
       of being firmly and fiercely deplored.