The pawns brawl, the castled rule

"Divide et impera"
is an ancient motto,
a Roman tactic
to yoke the rabble.

Two millennia on,
the techno-mass
- endowed with everything,
user of nothing -

polarizes on command
on issues forced on it,
swallowing slogans
of ultras-style propaganda.

Steered from a distance
by the real enemy,
the weapon's sights
are trained on a peer:

the fool shoots,
rails, foams at the mouth,
thinks himself enlightened,
valiant, righteous.

In the opposite trench
a clone mirrors him,
convinced, never conquered,
returning fire.

It's the ancestral brawl
between wretched pawns,
divided along lines
of someone else's convenience.

The castled rule
and smirk, satisfied:
the trick did work,
still works, and will work.

Drafted from Italian with Blog Translator, then revised by me.