fire begets fire
hate begets hate
chaos begets chaos
life becomes ash
hope becomes pain
peace becomes war
in the land
in the heart
why is a president
igniting his country
in rage?
why are friends
screaming like
enemies?
why is this people
transforming its freedoms
into flames?
why is countryman
willing to harm
countryman?
why do we threaten
& condemn the bonds
that join us?
are we blind
to the vision of heaven
that unites us?
is this a natural
plague
eating out our insides?
or the will of hellish
gods?
is this the wage
of our original sin?
or have we finally
been drown
by fear itself?
can it possibly be
the ego-powers
of a single man
magnified by tragic
circumstance?
is winning
so damn
Important?
we humans
are strutting
contradictions––
we are creators
we are destroyers
we are god-like
we are demons
we can be brutal––
we are born
to be kind
if we choose
to be conscious
we will embrace
with the love
that made us
if we are deaf
the cries of others
& indifferent
to the withering
of the world––
we might as well
be dead