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I have been at Delphi today

To hear Cassandra say

Words so soft

In truth's sheen

I have held aloft

The weighty waft,

Bearing visions she had seen

In cavern's glow

A truth so keen

A truth so obscene

We demanded that she go,

And gouged her eyes

She left us, laid low

Yet now we sow

The seeds of our demise

A harvest for which we'll pay

Our fear in guise

Our arrogant cries

It was truth we meant to slay

But with Cassandra's sight doffed

We shoulder the cost

And so keep fate at bay

for one more day 

we were no longer clean

Her vision, already seen

The words have nowhere to go

So her words we will despise

This is simply the price we must pay

Safety is when truth

Is treated as lies