Double Standard

The push for equality crossed slack tide.

Intolerance of the intolerant became tolerable.

The gossipers were gossiped about.

Hypocrites.

The Lurking Monster

Peace

Utopia

What we’ll stop at nothing to have

Conflict

Dystopia

What we’ll do anything to avoid

Peace easy on our minds, bodies

Conflict causes stress hormones to flood our systems

So we keep whatever would create conflict secret
Hidden in the best vault we can think up

Until the monster lurking just beneath the waves

Surfaces

What would have been a skirmish becomes a drawn out war

To win back what’s been yanked away in conflict's jaws