Chrysalis

Two towers speak in
deafening silence. world plunged
into chrysalis

sacrificial lambs
history's scalpel and the
scrawling pen of shame

accounting ledger
god's vengeance pronounced by men
who lack god's mercy

our jaggedly drawn
evolutionary line
history's spiral

inoculation!
brief sting, the collective bo-
dy severed and bound

back together but
the fear seeps through the stitches
don't scrach. Don't! Scratch.

tear up the old ways
that brought us power and shame
face the sunlight now

Peace.