Applause From Prison

Through my window  
The world screams  
Hand claps ringing in ears m
Applause for lost freedom  
Don’t they see how dictatorships start  
 
Ignore at your peril  
Civil liberties eroded  
Minorities culled before eyes  
Didn’t Jews go this way too  
Smiling politicians still cause deaths  
 
Chaos’s cold dagger  
Stabs eternally deep  
Piercing sorrowful innocence  
Stealing days and night  
New prisons called home