Scavenger Hunt

It is important to them. Why aren't you participating? 'It's been important for the past 50 years. And what is clear to them now, Has faded from my top ten long ago. Oil and water just does not mix. Even when vinegar has been applied to it. No matter how 'sweet' those rancid apples use to appear. Now that those who have grown older, Find deceit and their dishonesty losing appeal. They want to quote scriptures. With an undying love to uplift their fellowmen. As if the bitterness they've consciously inflicted, Is going to vaporize and disappear. I prefer not to be exposed to that much magic. Pretense is important to them. They wouldn't recognize truth or reality, If lit with neon lights in a clear night sky! Everything about them has been fantasized. They are mutants of affectations. And fearing anything that remotely exposes truth. That's why I am not participating, To uncover the 'known' in such a 'scavenger hunt'. I've forgiven. But not yet stupid enough to forget.' It's just a reunion! 'Of what? '