Forest Fire

Alone,

abandoned in a world gone mad

and hard and cold and cruel

by ideologies and beliefs.

"Your ideas do not match,

your philosophies are outdated,

your religion is old 

- as, in fact, are you.

Friend, you do not fit into our future

unless you do as we tell you to do,

speak as we tell you to speak,

think as we tell you to think."

Raised fists and fires, censorship and mockery,

and above all a howling din shouting down any that dare disagree

are the Gospel of this new world,

Fear its creed,

Moral rectitude in constantly submitting to the judgement of others

its salvation.

To those - others - of a different time or different thought,

they are only two choices:

Fight this wave of zeitgeist with its fire and rage 

and words of destruction and be destroyed

or simply disappear.

As with a forest fire,

wildlife flees and returns

only after the fire has consumed

all in its path

and burned itself out.