Hate and ignorance,
intolerance and tribalism
assail us every day.
Has our species lost direction:
is chaos our leitmotif?
We see, in the eyes of many,
a slavering, gibbering imp,
espousing harm and evil:
disdaining love and peace.
People who denigrate others,
and make personal attacks
on those who do not espouse
their dogma, their arrogance,
their stupidity.
To the barricades!
They are far too many
for our truth, our words,
to sway. We must instead
defend our gains,
on our path to a better world.
To the barricades!
Logic is overrun
by mindless, thoughtless babble.
We must dig in,
consolidate our ground,
and fight for a better way.
To the barricades!
Has it come to this,
where we split into camps
of diametrically different views?
Are dialogue and negotiation
yet another endangered species?
To the barricades!
This is not my world,
where plutocrats rule,
and a rabble runs wild and insane.
Let us circle the wagons:
we shall fight another day.