Release the downtrodden
Ever held captive by the oligarchs
Voices stifled by their greed
Only the masses can free them
Let loose on the monsters that key their shackles
Until this is realized nothing will change
Take heed of these words
Indulge in their wisdom as our fathers foretold
Only then will we regain what has been lost
Never to lose it again…unless we revel in comfort
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Listen to your heart
Only it can hear your passion
Voracious in its appetite
Even in your parting hour
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Happiness in spite of hardships
Ordinary folks can forget their troubles
Living in joy at least for a little while
ISIS can’t take that away from any of us
Defending those easily criminalized
Always looking for goodness in others
Yuletides spirit will carry us through
Serving us all the days of our lives
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Humanity cast aside by irrational fears
Are men, women and children to be left to die in the cold
To perish with no way forward and no way back
Reality supplanted by racism your justification
Every one of you should be ashamed
Demonizing what you don’t understand
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Have we no shame
Unravelling nations and peoples;
Milling through their resources for our own gain,
Insisting we are justified.
Look at the dead in our wake!
Is this what humbleness looks like
Taking what’s theirs as ours
Yet claiming we are righteous?
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Posturing and belligerence weighs heavy in America.
Oligarchs and their minions speak their true hearts,
Little do they care about decency,
Ignorance replaces common sense…
This is the state of this union.
I do not understand when we digressed to these depths.
Could it be with the election of the first black President,
America’s prejudice finally bubbled back to the surface.
Locked away except in close circles
Little glimmers of ugliness rear their heads
Yearning to be brought into the daylight.
Could we really be this small and this hateful
Or is there hope that these pipers will lead their mice back to the shadows ,
Relegating them to Hell for the sins they speak.
Reasonableness seems to be all but lost!
Eliciting a response from the ill-informed is easy
Calling to to the lowest common denominator
This is truly sad when political correctness is deemed anything but kindness.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Can you imagine a country;
A system where money…
Profit is its religion,
I certainly can.
Take a look at what we’ve become
America, owned by corporations
Leaving its citizens rummage through their trash.
Is this what the promise was
Suffering under the greed of oligarchs?
Maybe not, but this is precisely who we are.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Lives of the common man
Abandoned to the whims of the few
Beer and barbeques dull the pain
Or do they
Reality is stranger than fiction
Does the American dream still exist
A white picket fence and security
You may believe so, but I’m not sure you are right
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Never enough death for their liking
Always responding with “more guns”
This never seems to solve anything
It simply exacerbates the problem
Our constitution was meant to be fluid
Not fixed in the past
As times change so must it change
Lest we be captive to our founders
Read Jefferson
In his infinite wisdom he prayed it to progress
Fitting the needs of future generations
Left to our own vices we have failed
Every time a death occurs with gun-in-hand
Aren’t the lives lost worthy of discussion
Society says it has progressed
Sadly…I do not see it
Only more violence met with the promise of violence
Calls for change go unheeded
Instead they are met with angry rhetoric
Attacking anyone who disagrees
Toughening of gun laws is not outrageous
It is common sense
Only a savage society would disagree
Now let the games continue
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Hate for this word runs deep,
Ominous…reminiscent of the Nazis.
Men’s cruelty at its worst…
Even now I shiver at the thought.
Luther never dreamed of it in his day.
America, are we on the path to radical nationalism?
Never has there been a more dangerous thing,
Deutschland’s history…I pray it never repeats.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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