Another year’s come
I welcome it with gusto
Though without fanfare
Why should I celebrate that
Which comes with or without me
Still I am thankful
And I am truly hopeful
For a better year
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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A New Year’s rebirthOur hope each three-sixty-five
Could this be the year
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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More schoolyard antics
With name calling and punches
Unpresidential
It doesn’t seem to matter
To the ignorant voter
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What’s happened to us
Prepubescent politics
Make us laughingstocks
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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The sun shines and the sparrows chirp
Though deaf are the ears and blind are the eyes in grief.
Days become eternal nights blackened by sorrow
As they plunge a dagger into the souls abyss.
Let not the shadows consume this life
For death is natural and inevitable and will always be.
No gauntlet may stop the Reaper’s journey;
Fate has ordained this since the beginning of time.
Try as we might to ward off the ravages of destiny
We will succumb as others before us have done.
“There are no guarantees in life” a wise man once said,
But he was wrong, there is one absolute in life…
That we most certainly will die.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Joy and glad tidings
Hallmarks of this gleeful time
Lost by so many
Those without means, abandoned
Are left to suffer alone
No tree, gifts or warmth
Is afforded to these souls
They’re invisible
Perhaps the Christmas spirit
Was meant as a reminder
That giving is more
Than gifts to friends and family
It’s to all mankind
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Can you hear their cries in the wind?
Can you smell their desperation?
They fight change with venom,
Covering their adversaries in vile spittel.
Red faced with anger they create crisis
Instilling fear and loathing in the gullible.
Spewing hatred, they seek to divide
Driving a wedge between brothers.
Lurching in their death throes
They claw to remain relevant, but it is futile!
Time is progressing as it always has
While they remain mired in the muck of the past.
Just as the dinosaur was doomed to extinction
So to are they, except they do not yet realize it.
Farewell you carnivorous beasts.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Disappointment looms
As politics turn ugly
Fickleness of man
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Smiles of children
Reminder of innocence
I so miss those days
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Christmas season takes me back
To times less complicated
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Danger from within
Irrational fear monger
Stirs the racist pot
Over inflated egos
Will be this nation’s downfall
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Crackle of winter
Frost covered grass falls to fate
It happens yearly
Then spring consummates marriage
And nature’s children are born
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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