Tempest Excreta

by Saul Trabal

You slaughtered our people!
You killed ours first!
You stole our land!
You thieves were the worst!

The shit storm intensifies
The monkeys bare their teeth
The innocents agonize
Dying in bloody crumpled heaps

Villains and heroes
Titles surge to and fro
The winners and the zeroes
That damned status quo

Doves are traitors to the cause
Apes are blind to their bleats
Such fools must be stopped
Ground down to mere meats

The tempest keeps growing
Encompassing all
Crushing simians in its path
Countless more in free-fall

Mature voices are ignored
Debating a fool's game
The monkeys scream louder
Drowning out reasoned sane

Seeding clouds with hate
The thunderheads grow
Lightning rips down from heaven
Striking out fatal blows

It matters not who falls
Mothers, children-the whole lot
Cut down by both sides
Shredded flesh left to rot

Throwing shit at each other
Will not solve the crisis
Pull back from the brink
Sheathe those lethal devices

A future for all
Matters not if we fall
Victim to our vices
Shredding peace into slices

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