Watching It All Burn Down

She stands on the line

To one side stands those 

Dressed in red suits

To the other stands those

Dressed in blue shirts

 

Dragons

Bears

They dance among the suits

They pull the strings

As they look to control the masses

Via the social media

That only cares about greed

And not the human cost of business

 

She continues forward

 

Now both sides were their suits

Along with their masks

One side

It is a mask 

With a yellow star

While on the other 

It is a mask

With a swastika 

 

They begin to jeer

They begin to jest

 

Words fill the air 

In heated hatred

It assaults her skin

She can feel it lash out

 

Fascist

Communist

Socialist

Nazi

 

The words drown out

Any conversation

As both sides

Only see the masks

 

She continues forward

 

On one side 

They shout for peace

The buildings stand

While the police line up

Waiting for a spark

To light the match

 

Heat consumes her other side

She smells the smoke

As her clothes begin to burn

On the other side buildings burn

Bangs echo

Blood paints the street

A crimson shade

 

The heat latches further

Her skin begins to peel away

As the orange flames feed away

 

The other side begins to burn

Those words of hate

Grow louder

Her ear drums about to burst

 

She closes eyes

To let her voice sing

In a defiant cry

 

Both sides stop

The illusions shatter

Glass shards of a false reality

Drift away

 

Those in red

Those in blue

Those in white

Stand with her 

United 

 

The dragons

And bears

Begin to cower

 

Corporations

Politicians

Big Tech

Sit on bent knees

Waiting for an order

Waiting for their strings to be pulled

 

But there is nothing

As their fanatics

Are no longer puppets