dark side of empire - [poem] 4/4

trust

new strangers found my home
a place they wanted to help
a town they wanted to call home

but you proved more insidious

these strangers i welcomed
spoke dark whispers
beneath a gentle false breath of kindness

gladly their cash flows into my town
but that debt cost more in the end
than it could ever be worth
a price too high

and now i recognize the face
your face
once a friend, a partner
now an enemy
i still have trouble believing it

sitting alone underneath a frozen moon
tears freezing in place

only two possibilities now
civil war
or occupation