The Enemy
An enemy worth killing
Is not small.
Does not beg.
Does not know your name.
Has done the economics.
Knows you are not to be fed in prison.
Knows that there is only so much to consume.
So much water to be drunk.
So much corn to be eaten.
Uses you for slave labor.
As you generate all the capital.
As you generate all the real estate.
Grows stronger using fear.
Does not know what is human.
Has ties in everything produced.
Robs the soil of all that is natural.
Never resting.
Never gives an apology.
For you are the food it eats.
You are the cells it needs.
For you are nothing, to a disease.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
2 Comments
LC
July 13, 2012Boy, do recent events support this idea for me! Nice post.
Byron King
July 13, 2012Thanks. I figured leaving it a bit open would allow it to talk to more people. I wrote this between trying to figure out what disease is, thinking about American politics on a state and federal level, and to try to see what a proper visual for my mind to use for that disease would be and then I quickly thought of the Nazis.
Looking around for a proper enemy I did a bit of research as there have been many terrible dictators worthy of being an enemy. Hernan Cortes, Napoleon, My God The Crusades, etc. Millions have murdered in the name of faith and blind allegiance to king and country, for greed. For fear of the other. For hatred of self. But I really think Hitler and Himmler took the cake with their methodical creation of the ultimate killing machine, Auschwitz.
http://www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/beginnings/1940b.html
Chilling series. I had to turn it off half way through the first one. Too many bodies in unmarked graves, I had to call it a night.