Poppy day

Under the same sky
Romanistan vs. truth.
Codes and whispers move unseen,
compliance masquerades as loyalty,
and cruelty hides in plain sight.
Power pours over the land, demanding submission;
obedience is currency, animality cultivated,
and the machinery of the state bends bodies, wills, and spirits.

Those who fought real wars and died
would surely be ashamed of what has become of the world today,
of the compromises, the cruelty,
and the perfidious choreography of power
that masquerades as civilization.

Poppy Day.
—Fondly, O