Human Pawns

Save them from the kratocracy

Who pave pathways  of pain

With fruitless detours

Travelling through borders

Struggling to survive.

Equivalence rendered meaningless

Desperation on a string

Vulnerability intensified

Compassion dead

As pawns precariously placed.

Decades of deceit

Governed by monsters

Pouncing like prejudicial panthers

Pounding their prey

With poison paws.

As gills of demons

Exhale their toxins

Polluting the oxygen

New antidotal measures

Must freshen the air.

Beyond chains of division

Games that people play

That leave many consumed

The cancer of power thwarted

Tenuous grip torn from the brink.