Chess

 Pieces carefully placed

Lies carefully laid

What is their game?

What do they have to gain?

Who benefits? Who loses?

only the rich

all of the poor

all the mourning

all the homeless

all the lost

all are traumatized

all the earth

power-hungry maniacs

fill voids left by those who

didn't know how to market themselves

those who saw the truth clearly

thought others would too

HaHA

how wrong we were 

HaHaHA

all the way to the bank

to pull out our last pennies

HaHaHA

all the way to bank to deposit the defense contracts

you want the pawns destitute

having to labor for their daily bread

having to fight for other's ambitions

the kings,

teased with vain glory

swallow the frogs

Controlled puppet, all

until missiles fall from skies

but long before then

the poets are silenced