All thorny Gordian knots
begin as minor tangles,
inconvenient, nothing more,
until some damned blind fool
decides that he, and he alone,
can somehow see the right of it
and thus begins to pull,
with all his sanctimony
and self-righteous might,
upon some random thread,
all the while oblivious
of the end result!
The harder that he pulls,
the tighter that new knot becomes.
Until, in the end,
the knot becomes so tight,
It will likely take
decades of concerted work
from many patient, caring souls
to undo the damage
wrought in but a moment
of unthinking haste
or uncaring arrogance.
Aroil in Pain 