In An Hour an Epidemic - Stream of Consciousness

a good story
always trumping the truth
a villain
held up to be hated
loved as a master
of evil

across the river
a deal was struck
we now must see
the old friends
and come to terms

it was a vast landscape
of shocking
disregard
an evil lawyer
represented them all

to see him there
in the cells
deep in the fortress
a fear shot through me

i knew it was
unstoppable
unending
unchanging
altering my mind