one hundred and fifty years

Death rides a horse of red and blue
Starlight, midnight scenes
Displaced families
Forgotten sisters lost in endless white
Empty gestures done for virtue
"But you don't understand"
"You need us, we keep you safe"
You don't keep us safe
You only endanger
We keep ourselves safe
Uninformed swine have no place in our communities
Removed to make way for a conduit of sludge
To turn our water into blood