Jonestown

The man with the darkest intentions was once the boy with the brightest hopes.

The man was father and they trusted him with their money, their lives, their souls.

Did they look around at what they'd done and wonder how it had come to this pass?

No one free to leave; no one dared to speak; what good would it have done anyway?  To speak against father was to speak against God. 

Or so it was perceived through tired minds and desperation.  They were together in their suffering.  Father saw to it.

A few did flee, taking their chances with gunmen and the jungle.  They lived to describe unspeakable horror.  

They lived to mourn everything they loved: family, friends, a vision they believed in. 

They lived to warn us: "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it".