Synchronized
step step step-
It’s a march to make effect.
Black sky holds a fate;
the horses look away.

A fire burns
a small to loathing hatred into their hearts.
Two different causes-
defense protecting a home, a family, a life
offense protecting a right, a hope, a dream
guarding it with the reins of disaster.

It burns a deep red-
the fires they sit by reminiscing
better days.
Victims- victims.
We hear the clatter.

But a fire that burns this deep
and the sight of a world losing its
youth to the floods of escalated hatred
shows there are no perpetrators-
just victims.