Pitiful Figures

because we must

How wonderful will it be

to see the regime

fall to its knees

bloody in the snow of late February

To cough

to tremble to hold its hands high in surrender

I don't believe

even at the end

it will feel regret or remorse

but instead

some primal feeling

that knows an end will come for all

and all includes it

There will be a cry,

a wailing

from every soul

when the regime falls

for all that was taken

and for the weight to be lifted

We will surround the regime

a mass of bodies

tearing and thrashing

and it will wriggle under the weight

of collectivism

the togetherness it took

We will win

because we must