Political Trauma

From the Left
and the Right
 
howls of misery  
aggressive words
cacophony
 
When Left stabs  
all to their right
 
demanding
that we say

their own names
as they fall
 
(in their mind
social victims)
 
those who are  
bleeding out
 
seem to be  
stabbing the  
 
potential  
heroes of
their own crisis
 
(in the literal
and figurative)
 
With every reach  
for revenge
 
they damage  
their own cause