Monsters

They once wore hoods over their heads
so no one would know
who they really were.
Their rituals were practiced in the dark.
Now they act out in the daylight.
A plane goes down in the Ukraine.
Troops line the border.
Villages burn.
 

Chemical weapons drop from the sky.
Children are bombed in Gaza.
A drone kills a reporter in Iraq.
The innocent are tortured.
But no one is brought to trial.
They make warplanes and missiles.
They declare this to be
in everyone's interest.

A baby is dissected beneath the glare
of surgical lights; its organs sold.
They make laws that allow the killing to go on.
(Even Doctor Frankenstein sought to create life not to destroy it.)
They make speeches and raise funds.
They run for office. They often win.
They are hard to stop.
They rule the world