Forever Chameleon

At once the magician

The power of anything out of the hat

Beckoning broadcast

Sanguine power to watch

For just as fear freezes

So too thaws the past

Upon deaf ears

History replays

Ancient truths

No amount of hiding

Can contain

Believing he is without rival

Confident of the buttons

White

Black

Pulsating

Red

How rose this kind

This uncontained dark embodiment

This rule by madness

Designing mass murder

Foreshadowing Hollywood versions

Political rants of hawkish lean

Even

Dictators yet to come

We watched

We cringed

But we…

While destinies of Peoples

Being roiled by storms of passion

Reigning upon their innocence

Awaited twisted cravings

That never cooled

Knew not the warmth of sun

Only the ice of all that is dead

With words like hammer blows

Gates protecting the hearts of people

Splinter

Fracture

Fall

For lest we forget

Centuries bury

But also resurrect

Endlessly revealing

For some

Cyclic misfortune

Dismay

Hopelessness

Yes

He died

But might he be back

Haunting the global mirror

An insanity ever reflective

Seeing himself

As once Hitler

Now an Assad

Evil

Forever Chameleon