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life

Emotions

Run

Dangerous

…hot…  

Continuous

Barrages

Of hate mail memes…

Social media blasts

Which disrupts

Our now... 

Awakening, 

Horrors ...in our past... 

Relentless acts 

Where...

Pain and suffering

Ruled the day...

Flowing …slow and steady

…like lava… 

Destroying

Everything in its path... 

Like lifelong relationships 

causing unnecessary distress... 

On topics of... 

skewed... relevance

Which crumple and collapse 

The bridges 

Standing...

Upon common ground

Where ...once we found... 

Friendship...

Under constant onslaught

Of outside inspired …influence…

Enemies

Of the patriotism

Which gave this country\a rise to power

Are undermined, daily

By professional

Provocateurs

Whose primary

Objective

Is to create dissent…

Like matchsticks

…in a furnace

Race baiting

Warlords

Barking orders

To

a growing body

Of those

Who choose …badly…

Although, not

Considering themselves

Bigots  

Are perfectly at ease

Associating themselves

with others

Who make clear

…their intention

To exclude others

…unlike them

Cowards …showing

Such distain

For other people

…without the least provocation

Talking about committing atrocities

Against helpless women and children

While giggling like schoolgirls

Like that makes them …some kind

Of g*d* …war heroes…

Churches and crosses …burned…

Abandoned schools

With shot out windows

…and bloodstained walls

House …lost spirits…

Whose shadows

No longer play

…at recess…

The still smoking ruins

of democracy…

Shudders …and moans,

freedom deferred…

Justice denied, twice

Smothered voices,

Gerrymandered

Beyond recognition

…of any semblance

Of the elusive status …                             

Democratic republic

Racist rhetoric, once evident

…on the sidelines

Becomes prevalent…

Evidence of a total distain

…for the past state of the union

Appears powerless to assuage

The assault of… new coup…

Overpowered from within

…with enemies of the state…

Becoming the…  

(S)Elected members

…of the makers …of the law…

Unchecked, choose

Among their allies

To solidify …the rift,

Between… 

Those

who’ve grown to believe

The nation …of

We the people…

Who... 

Have learned the gift

Of a melding of diverse talents,

Of alliances …with mutual benefits

Allowing all to share the bounty

Rather than …winner take all…

Of the ruling…

Committee…

C2

Who readily

…coexist, with tyrants

 Is assisted by evil… assassins…

Disavows democracy

…as it falls…

Falls under…

The new…

Confederacy

Leaving the helpless

To suffer

…beyond hope…