The Empire of Uncertainty

Silence fills the air like smoke
from the house fire of all the things
you put me through.

From the days spent
trying to mend the wounds caused by
divorce battles and depression
while the chasm between us widens
and plate tectonics push our islands further away
until the inhabitants don't even speak
the same language.

But the colonies grow,
earning better weapons and defense mechanisms
to ensure the other stays away,
and people begin to forget the toxic waste
and pollution made in the face of progress,
the poison pumped into the sea.

And the rift widens.
A twenty minute journey turns into four days
and it becomes harder to tell the difference
between a red flag
and a blood-stained white one.