Tightropes walk to the edge of ruin
Foresight focused on the next coronation
Selfish air about you floats
Ignoring the subjects by whom you’re appointed
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Millions seek your help after natures disaster
WIth backs turned and blinders on you drift away
Crying our duty has been faithfully done
Shameful and disgraceful are your exploits
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You led us to this precipice as arrogant fools will do
Tug-o-war played with lives of no consequence
Calls to work go unheeded in deafened halls
Leaving the masses pondering their fate
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Pointing fingers and placing blame like two year olds do
Holding your breath until your face turns blue
Shouting foul to the constituency
Hoping for some semblance of sympathy
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Feigning sincerity is not your passion
Ploys thrown about for the cameras leave us hollow
Begging for guidance and utopia in a barren wasteland
Sadly hope falls just out of reach
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Choosing to live or eat should not be in question
As human beings should these not be our unalienable right
Many of you say no all for the saving of a dollar
While claiming vociferously that we are a Christian nation
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Bloody and battered we hope for change
Praying diplomacy and common decency once again rears it’s head
Instead replacing cordiality with dissension
We are left drowning in a torrent of despair
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Harbor not ill will towards those who have entrusted
Compromise in our eyes is not an unclean word
Stubbornness and procrastination will lead to certain demise
Catapulting a once great dominion into irreparable ruin
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
The words well express your emotion in a strong, biting tone.
Thank you very much. I have been disgusted by what has been going on in the U.S. It is such a shame.
Perfectly captured!!!!!!!! Can I vote for YOU????? xo
Thank you very much for the nice comment. Sometimes I’m not sure how poems on social issues will be received. And yes, you can vote for me, but I’m fairly certain that some of our more conservative friends wouldn’t be happy.