Poetry Corner: “The Orange Toad and the little man with a funny moustache”

The Orange Toad and the little man with the funny moustache

Both started with election wins
One succeeded with a coup while the Orange Toad lost an election and called foul
but desperately summoned his militia to overpower democracy
Both had their goon militia to beat, intimidate and threaten
Both created phantasmagorical enemies to rally their masses
Through social chaos power maintained amidst different socio-economic classes
and both loved social clashes
The little man with the funny moustache launched a war of iron and steel
The Orange Toad a war of vindictive words

Hatred is their moral currency
Divide and conquer
Bully and beat
Cultivate the right
Demean and destroy the left

The little man with the funny moustache demonized and murdered a category of many
The Orange Toad simply hated and mocked

The little man with a funny moustache built nasty camps fortified by towers and barbed wire and millions fell but the Orange Toad let a nasty bug take its toll
The Orange Toad promised a great wall
The little man with a moustache on The Continent and the Orange Toad afar
On history they left a scar
While not the same
They both played a dangerous game
Let history decide what they had in common
other than inspiring rock bottom.

Robert K. Stephen