Where is the Line?

Between tolerance and standards

Between tolerance and decency

Between tolerance and the rules

That mark the rails

Upon which the train of civilization travails

I know all the talking points

I know all the rebukes

I used to fall on the left side

Of the political aisle

I remember what it was like

And now I watch

As they continue to descend into chaos

It’s almost like I…

Jumped off the train

Just as I noticed

The bridge was out

Ahead

We’ve reached a point in our collective dysfunction

A sort of

Critical mass of madness

Where I can point out something happening

In the real world

That 20 years ago, would have been a film

Or a book

Describing some dystopian nightmare

And the response is always

“It’s the right thing to do.”

Just like the characters in those books

The actors in those films

Who believe with religious zeal

That this is the just and only way

To save the world

I hope the author of this story

Has thought of a better ending