Division Among Our Leaders

When Summer turns away-

The air gets cold at nights

and we can see our breath under our stadium lights.

is it a game? or politics…

those in command should not consign

to tendencies of despotism

denying oneself of control

affects the sum total of harmony felt by all,

jealousy slander spite

invites a monster with emerald eyes

the monster has a mouth

and ears behind everyone’s back.

acceptably foreshadowed by one named Forché,

“there is nothing one man won’t do to another.”

but everyone knows

a man cannot abuse a child

his empire will crumble in the face

of his own violation

-Ariana Corpus