Old Divisions Renewed And Refreshed

During WW2 one of the common cries
was 'the enemy within', when people saw
activity that that they could not explain
when most likely they saw the neighbours
acting within the law, but routinely the police
had to deal with such reporting, to reassure
whoever reported it, 'It was not the Germans.'.

Just over nine years on from the Brexit vote,
that decision, passed by a narrow majority 
is setting up new divisions in society, 
renewing the state of  mutual internal enmity
where neighbour have report on each other, 
as if the one reporting was the native
and the other an alien to be deported,
no matter that both worked hard to buy
where they lived, and their place in society.

Who knows where we go now when suspicions

first sown 85 years ago have to be reaped afresh 
because of a vote where the campaign around it
was skewed beyond all logic and rationality,
so as to divide the country afresh?