Line of Demarcation

At the line of demarcation 

they sequester him;

the crops run fallow, 

and the land is sickly.

Beneath its darkness,

beyond the new moon,

where evil thrives,

and everything is deadly. 

They banish him

for sinister actions:

stealing Life and Liberty

and the fleecing of the citizenry.

In the end defeated

through great effort

by We the people united together

who refused negotiating our equality.

Left to sit

a rotting museum piece,  

a spectacle on his pedestal, 

an example of needless human tragedy.