Mark Dillon - The Idea

I've given great hopes to many a dream.
Brought despair and the desperate scream.
Been kicked around and turned upside down.
Made a lot 0f people smile and others frown.

Shaped many different cultures
and drove others to extinction.
Was the bringer of master plans
and woe's and predictions.

I'm only an instant away, yet as distant as the sun.
I can take the shape of a saviour or a gun.
I've been used to bring about the worst and the best
depending on in whose mind I take rest.
The fate of this planet is within my domain
and mankinds decisions to cherish life or be slain.

Mark Dillon

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