Colder

Colder                                         10/12/2016

731 days before

Two years plus the jump

A mid-point of the sun

Divided and dark. 

Many did not know

And many did not understand

Where the nightmare began

And just how it shall end. 

Yes we believed

And yes we all tried

Hitched up and ready

Running with all our strength.

One thing ended

And then another began

Saving us all

For another day

And another battle. 

The good fought

Against themselves

Suffering and striving

Over nothing at all. 

Coaxed, prodded

And paused before the fire

We are made

And then extinguished. 

God only knows

What it is

All that is done

For power

And money.

Crawling on its belly

And chewing through the heart

Compromised, infiltrated,

Eaten and dead.

Under the fence

And inside the wire

The enemy within

Far worse than soldiers.

We wept for the dead

But the killer was their friend

All bought and paid for

Tragic, dumb and sad.

It is never enough

Because they want more

The same now as then

And rotten to the core.

The window is closing

But the door is still ajar

Now more than ever

The same usurpers

Curse at the stars.