A New Social Milestone

A sigh of relief from some.

A time of rejoicing for others.

The rainbow people finally get their unions

Love is flowing now to more people than ever

New love

Old love

Love for all ages.

Rainbow love.

The Great White Court handed down the decree

That the people of the rainbow flag

Get to show their love legally.

For a time they were allowed to date

But now, together and forever they can decide their fate.

Forget the rants

Forget fiery mad rhetoric

Forget the fire and brimstone preachers

Who moan and whine

Who scream and yell

From their burning pulpits in the front of the room

Because love is a beautiful thing

No matter who shows it,

No matter who knows it,

No matter where it comes from,

No matter how you receive it,

Let this love of one another forever ring.

102. The Holocaust

The rest of the world felt the same pain as America.

Germany inflated.

Things were too scarce

For such a large amount of pay.

A man arose

To blame people for their troubles.

He marched around giving orders to start a new age.

With dreams of an evil race of supermen.

Beware, children, of this man.

Beware the man who marches under the crooked cross.

Beware the man with the banner of soot and blood.

Beware the man with the banner of fire and ash.

He will be the destruction of many.

None could appease him.

None could please him

Without doing gravely evil things.

They offered a sacrifice to this great beast

But his appetite was insatiable.

He took it and only grew bigger.

More beast than man.

He went out and conquered.

The child of Germany observed everything.

He made sure of it

The child couldn’t say anything

For fear of the beast’s fiery breath.

He sent out his minions and gathered the innocents.

Then sent them off to be burned.

“There’s no room for innocent people in my world”

He said as he tossed them into the fire.

“We must build!”

“Build factories of death across Europe.”

“They brought mass production to the car”

“We can bring mass production to death.”

“Gather all people who don’t fit into my world.”

“Burn them.”

“The Jews?”

“Burn them.”

“Catholics?”

“Burn them.”

“Unionists?”

“Burn them.”

“Communists?”

“Burn them.”

“Homosexuals?”

“Burn them.”

“Burn them all.”

“They have no place in my world.”

People were killed.

War was made.

Countries fell to this beast of a man.

94. Romanticism

Fire.

Fire all around.
Burning out of control.
Riots and revolutions began in Europe once again.
Some feared the French Revolution,
Beheadings,
Napoleon.
The poets and artists wanted people to strive for the best.
To be the best.
Mill wanted freedom and liberty.
They needed equality.
The passionate, romantic, fiery wish to bring back the old ways.
The days of the noble savage.
The days of dreaming with the Greeks in groves of olive trees.
The puffy shirts of Shakespeare.
Selling souls with Faust in goblin markets.
No more of this revolution.
No more of this industry.
We should look back and push forward
Like Janus on the Roman coin.
Always looking to the future.
Always looking to the past.
Never in the present.
The present is too terrible.
What good can come of it?
So two forces push and pull
Like that steam train trying to get started.