Dominguez

You wore progress like a clean shirt

While your hands stayed buried in the old blood

Every speech polished

Every order soaked

You talked about balance

Like it was math

Like bodies don’t scream when you stack them wrong

Like obedience isn’t just fear with better posture

I watched you stand in the ruin

Pretending history needed a manager

Like conquest ever cared about intent

Like genocide softens when you whisper it

You don’t believe in gods

You believe in control

In pressing the future flat

Until it stops resisting

Faith is just another lever

If you pull it hard enough

This city didn’t need saving

It needed to be left the fuck alone

Every wall already knew the cost

You just refused to listen

I followed the trail you left

Paperwork and shell casings

Promises taped over mass graves

You call it inevitability

I call it cowardice with structure

You said sacrifice was necessary

Funny how it’s never yours

Funny how leadership always stands

Just far enough from the blade

The people hid when you spoke

Not because they misunderstood

But because they understood perfectly

What order really means

You tried to cage the sun

Tried to own the dark

Tried to turn an ending

Into an asset

I don’t need to kill you

History already is

You’ll be remembered as a footnote

A man who mistook authority

For purpose

This place will outlive your voice

Outlast your plans

Outlast the idea that you mattered

At all

When the ruins finally settle

And the jungle seals the cracks

Your name won’t be cursed

Or praised

It’ll just be gone

Like it fucking deserves