Something wicked this way comes...

before you read: Themes covered might be slightly offensive and open to debate. George Floyd, for example, is mentioned in the last stanza so bear down

Something Wicked This Way Comes

As the titan Kronos overthrew his father

The golden ichor on his clothes

Celebrating with his sibling after avenging his mother

Slowly starting to rule the world

Getting married and starting a family

Looking at his firstborn with this look in his eyes

His wife, Rhea, thought inside

“Something wicked this way comes”

The first few humans settled in caves

Equipped with stones, plants and flames

Starting families, developing communities

Doing anything to achieve bare necessities

Smiling with children, farming together

And then emerged a tyrant with this evil gleam in his eyes

As the quiet sage in the corner mumbled

“something wicked this way comes”

A few decades in New Rome

As emperors began to rule

And Tiberius passed away

The teenage boy, the successor, Caligula started to give a speech

As the view cuts to a little girl sitting on the front row

While her mother tells her, nodding

“something wicked this way comes.”

Last century, a young soldier

commended for his bravery and patriotism

Slowly and gradually worked his way from the bottom

to all the way at the top

And as he got more fame and power

and more faux science books to read

He declared an emergency, stroking his thin mustache

As a man in the crowd warned

“something wicked this way comes.”

A policeman in Minnesota the other month

Took a man and pinned him to the ground

Took far too much action than required

Did far more than he was allowed

And as he placed his feet on the poor man’s neck

And the man just scrambled for breath

While a little boy at home, listening to this, screamed

“something wicked this way comes”

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