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If…
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.
Democracy Dashed Upon The Rocks
Democracy dashed upon the rocks
Lighthouse guide has fallen dark
Mayday, mayday calls the flock
Two by two like Noah’s ark
Captain’s crew has blindly haled
Commands barked sure to kill
Near time win will long time fail
When keel doth rupture on sill
By headwinds sail to Davy’s doom
Tsunami comes rushing in
Neither hold nor deck is safety’s room
They’ll pay for ignorance sin
Histories ne’re kind to pirate thieves
Nor saber tongued silvery fools
While innocent victims losses grieved
Their anger grows til it’s cruel
Lashing out victims surely will march
The port be their final stand
Skyward they gaze backs and necks upwards arched
Victory’s sweet and it’s grand
Criminal fools feel they’re immune
Til their pokes raise the ire and rage
Common man pushed to the brink of his doom
Turns upon captor and cage
Freedom they hail til finally set free
WIth blood on their calloused hands
Keepers grotesque lay twisted at feet
The weaker take control of the land
Postponing their fate is futile at best
They’d be better to meld with the times
Thinking this day they’ll withhold from the rest
Soon they will answer for crimes
~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~
The New Year Comes
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 ~~
Do You Know The Cost
Do you know the cost
Hatred, discrimination
Rot society
Licensing vile factions
To spew ugly rhetoric
We hear this danger
From the pinnacle to base
Brothers and sisters
Singled out for their difference
Treated as misfits…pariahs
Leadership for all
A political promise
Faded at “I will”
We’re racing to the bottom
Tethered to an ignorant
Explain your blindness
Your willingness to sell out
Friends and family
On the words of a blowhard
Who we now call President
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Brother Against Brother
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 ~~
The Election Is Over …Thank God!
I wanted to say hello to those of you who follow this simple blog and let you all know how much I truly appreciate it.
I have been very absent over the past few months for a number of reasons, some of them health related while others have been more emotional. I allowed myself to take our election here in the United States personally. I know this feeling was not solely felt by me, but by many on both sides of the political spectrum. I will say this, I was not and am not a supporter of Donald Trump or the Republican Party. This is no longer the party of Reagan (he had his flaws as well). As conservative as Ronald Reagan was, he did not display the ugliness of Donald Trump, his campaign, nor his surrogates. President Elect Trump’s campaign was filled with racism, prejudice, misogyny and outright hate. Essentially he is the living definition of a sociopath.
This being said, there are a number of things that I have been seeing from the Democratic party that I believe to my core are the wrong things to do to affect change in both the party and the country after this historic and bizarre election.
First, I have received numerous emails from the Democratic Party in the state which I reside to do everything we can to “fight” Trump. This is just what the Republicans did to our current president, President Barack Obama. This attitude does nothing but feed the division within this country. This does not mean that we should not fight policies that are in opposition to our platform, but we must also mold policies that are being promoted by Trump and the Republicans that can be made to fit at least some of our agenda. We can not spend the next four years opposing every single policy proposition just because it was proposed by a Republican…this is what the Republicans had done for the last eight years…it wasn’t right then and it would not be right now and ultimately serves no positive purpose. Secondly, we must work harder to detail and explain to the American people what our policy propositions are, how they will positively affect us and how we will pay for them. This election was not won on policy at all, but instead on personal attacks. The person that was better at promoting their negative message ultimately was the person that won.
I will say that although I am disappointed in the American people both for who they elected and the low voter turnout numbers, I will hope for the best for this nation, for short of violent overthrow, Donald Trump will be America’s next president.
In the end, I will respect the office, but hold his feet to the fire to make him prove that he can be the President of all the people…including me.
Thanks for hearing my not so eloquent rant about the state of America. I have so much more I want to say, but I’m sure you all have your own problems and definitely better things to do.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Threats Of Violence
Threats of violence,
Assassination condoned
Where is his outrage!
He stokes the fires of hatred
Ignoring consequences
This is disgusting
And must be squashed abruptly,
He’s clearly not fit!
Still crowds are cheering for him
Egging on his fickle rants
They are lunatics
Claiming to be patriots,
When did we devolve.
This election has choices
And Trump must not be the one!
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
He’s Scorching The Earth
He’s scorching the earth;
Smell of sulfur permeates
From Hell’s fiery pit.
Long buried deep underground
His minions have arisen;
Blindly following
Abaddon’s vile deception
Like mindless rabble,
Anarchists legitimized
By the greatest deceiver.
Now’s the time for the
Thundering of the Shofar!
Time to declare war
In our fight for decency…
This nation’s identity.
We must not succumb
To conspiracy theories,
To the Fallen’s lies.
He will not be your savior
But instead your worst nightmare.
There’s still time…repent!,
Wake up before it’s too late
From this horrid dream.
We deserve better than this
Better than this Satan’s lies.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
America’s Hopes
America’s hopes
Trumpled by a narcissist
We’re a laughing stock
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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