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