Nothing Left After Othering
Bones Stripped Bare
The cool winter moon is swooning
Laughing and lighting up the way as
Owls hoot warnings to their prey
And I lie here, wide awake
Night after bone-cold night,
Fight after fight after fight as
One more former friend
One more former person
Transforms into an owl
Killer instinct unrelenting
“They” shouldn’t have broken the law
“They” are nothing but criminals
“They” and their babies belong in cages
“They” are a bunch of snowflakes
“They” are coming for our guns
“They” are coming for our money
“They” are coming for us
Once they were all we, We the People
Once we pledged allegiance
To the same humane ideals
Went to bat side by side
Fighting for the right to be equal…
Now they are predators
Tossing away their humanity
They are merely owls swooping
Hunters in the illusory moon
Chewing on my war-torn heart
Talons dripping with the flesh of
Our shared species
To the too-many former “liberals” and “moderates” saying, “I feel for them, but…”
