If a tree falls in the woods…,
Do we hear it?
If a boy cries wolf,
Do we reprimand it?
If politics contradict science,
Do we believe it?
If a lie is told over and over,
Do we ignore it?
If a line is drawn in the sand,
Do we cross it?
If we won’t think for ourselves,
Do we deserve it?
If we refuse to learn from the past,
Do we repeat it?
Question authority as a thoughtful man.
Trust the facts when facts support,
For ignorance can never replace truth.
The New Year comes
Amidst fireworks and gunfire.
Another corrosive year
Under the auspices of a fool.
Nothing to change for the better,
Nothing, just more pain,
More divisiveness and heartache.
Watch as what’s unknown
Collapses around our knees.
Impetuousness and egotism
Drive us to the brink of war.
Alone…we’ve alienated our friends,
Left them wondering what we stand for
While we wonder what we stand for.
We’ve lost our souls,
Sold them to the devil himself
While he sits laughing
And watching the insanity of Hannity
On his big screen.
Drowning in birdless tweets,
We live under the thumb of a child
Who treats our sacred institutions
As schoolyard rules to be trampled upon
For his own pleasure.
The New Year comes
And here we are ,
On the second spin of the merry-go-round
With a circus clown at the controls.
God help us…again.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Brother against brother,
Sister against sister,
Words that divide.
Idealogues and pundits
Preaching their truths;
Do they profit from their lies
Or are they blinded by delusion,
We will never know which.
This does not excuse us.
Aren’t we obligated to discern,
Isn’t this what it means to be informed?
It appears we’ve forgotten,
Submitting to partisan experts,
Who feed what we want to hear
To our otherwise deaf ears.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Greatness is hidden
Behind a curtain of fear
Vile and ugly
Truly…what is to be gained
For the lecherous many
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A green light to hate
Harkening back to dark times
When race reigned supreme
Murder was freely sanctioned
With some holding little worth
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We aren’t this people
Covered in blood and blackness
We are so much more
Look deeply into your soul
See the light that calls your name
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This light is called love
And we are charged as shepherds
Tending to its flock
What’s best of America
Exists behind this veil
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Division on stage;
Peddling war and hatred
To the cheer of crowds.
Angry white folks rebelling
While wrapped in the flag.
Our face is changing…
Diversity’s taking hold
And cannot be stopped
No matter how hard you try.
Time has come to embrace it.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Can you smell the winds of change?
Not confined by border or ethnicity;
It cares not about race, creed or color.
For so long the grass has been trampled,
Crushed under ornate boot heels,
Mowed down by the sharpest of blades
With no thought of the consequences.
Resilience is the way of nature.
Young shoots and saplings rebound,
They cannot be kept down.
Can you smell the winds of change
As they comes for you?
Your palaces and coffers cannot protect you,
Shuttered windows cannot save you,
We are not fooled by your fained sympathy,
Looking us in the eyes from marbled balconies
And lying through your yellowed teeth.
You do not know our condition!
You do not know our pain
As yours are the boots that have ground us to dust!
Take your hollow words and scream into the wind.
Choke on the vomit you spew,
Knowing that the end is near
And it is you that will be crushed
For all of the harm that you have done.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Bitterest of pills
I swallowed without consent
And now I’m choking.
With every day that passes
I pray for civility
Only to suffer
The pains of disappointment.
Will I ever learn…
I doubt that I ever will,
But there’s no harm in hoping.
Trying to temper
My passion for politics,
Where lies don’t matter,
Compassion signals weakness
And right and left never meet.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Symbol of greatness
Tarnished by greed and hatred.
A once proud people
Sinks deeper into ruin
While wearing a clueless stare.
They would be appalled
If only they were conscious,
But alas they aren’t
Choosing instead to live lies
Propagandized by tyrants.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Art of compromise
Non-existent in our world
U.S. politics
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Shadow hovering,
Masked as national concern,
Arrogant bastard!
Caring not who he offends
As long as his ego is served.
What have we become?
Does not humility count?
Hate does not serve us,
It only serves to inflame
Defining an us and them.
He speaks of greatness,
Uniting America
While he divides us!
Tell me! What’s the attraction
To this thinly skinned buffoon.
The answer’s simple;
He appeals to the lowest
Animal instincts;
Making it okay to hate
Those who they don’t understand.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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