today

people are going mad.
not the nice, loopy, us-sort-of mad.
a dangerous, boiling, menacing kind of mad.
the communal violence kind.
the hateful kind.
the scary kind.
they burn buses when they're like this.
people die when they're like this.
the world slows to a crawl, and plays every horrific moment in slow motion to drive it in when they're like this.

a little girl in a red coat stands while her world is swept away.
shots cry, people fall.
a pile of lifeless forms is pushed into a giant, burning pitfull.
a little red coat is visible, just for a moment, among them.
massacre.

i was hoping we had progressed from then.
but it's the same thing.
again and again.
humans prove they're not worth their own abilities.
shiver.