Day 27 Prompt: Pawn

Title: Twenty-Seven

The controlling powers are locked in their subterranean palaces
Where water is the most valuable currency, and
Every drop lost is considered a crime
No mercy is shown to those guilty of waste, they are out of time
This is the awful irony of a world built on waste
Yet the wealthy few still have a tight grip on the power, and judge in haste
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Sentencing the dwindling races of pawns, to fight over crumbs, they are
Effectively, the subjects of warlords who control what remains of humanity by chopping off thumbs
Vast arrays of deadly weapons are at their disposal, and
Every dome has an unelected despot in charge of the castle, but
None report to a judicial head of state, taking the law into their own hands