Fleeing the Carnage

It's the way the world turns on an axle

of human tyranny where a cultural revolution 

gains its traction through the elimination of 

countless unfortunates and the ascension

of a new ideology for the masses destroys 

the lives of those same victims while yet

another ideology veering in another direction 

chooses its victims carefully the end result 

quite similar, ridding the world of the existence 

of the unsanctioned. And how readily it is all 

forgotten those countless deaths before the tyrant

resumes his respected place on the throne that 

mass murder, torture, population displacement

and teeming hordes of refugees reoccupy other

spaces in other places. Memory grows dim 

refusing to focus on crimes against humanity

war crimes, genocides for it is all too, too 

mind-wearying and one must after all get on 

with life, the killers complacently picking up 

where humanity left off, fleeing the carnage.