Red.

how can we escape
as we watch this world
burn --
body after body
hurled into the shadows as if
they mean
nothing
to us
 
hades
you must relish seeing
our comrades
plunge into your nadir
suffering
suffocating
 
how much more
steel
can the flesh of 
our brothers and sisters
endure before they
br|eak
 
and how terrible
that the stripes of
our country
must be 
red and white
 
america, until you see
all this red
our friends will continue to beg
please
officer
don't shoot