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 ~~
Fascists among us
In the likes of Donald Trump
And his followers
A disgrace to humankind
Yet they live in denial
Gullibility
Prevailing in this nation…
In this century
Learning nothing in decades
We are destined to repeat
Showing no regret
Is what is most troubling
In this modern day
Racism and hatred live
In their violence and threats
Have we learned nothing
Showing little tolerance
What have we become
But laughing stocks of the world
And fodder for terrorists
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Exsanguination,
Bloodletting of our nation
With every debate.
No discussion of issues
Just name calling like children.
Where is the substance?
Criticism solves nothing
Without solutions.
Since time immemorial
We have held this as the truth.
Today words of fools
Supplant our common senses.
Fear now rules our day,
Seen in every passing face;
Breaking our union apart.
What is it they want,
Their finger on the button
Ultimate power?
They are the ones we should fear
If in silence we’d listen.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Round and round the story goes
One that’s as old as time
Where it stops nobody knows
Causing tensions to climb
These 50 odd years since civil rights
Have made so little change
Hatred between black and white
Festers like the mange
Fear of lynching may have passed
But fear exists no less
While walking the street they’re still harassed
No matter how finely dressed
Ask Sandra Bland or Michael Brown
Oh wait they cannot speak
Too many names buried in the ground
The future seems so bleak
Justify and deny all you wish
Your blindness it won’t erase
200 years by chains and switch
Like animals kept in place
Nothing has changed in modern day
Ask Eric, Tamir or Trayvon
It matters not what any of us say
Because either way they’re gone
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Repent!
There is no repentance,
There is no civility only cruelty.
The cud we chew is our own
Regurgitated repeatedly
Until even we believe the vile spew.
This once great nation has become caustic
Poisoning the lifeblood of its citizens.
O’ how embarrassed I am
To be counted amongst you.
What we viewed as progress
Proved to be nothing but a facade.
The world sees us
Just as ugly as our past portrays.
We fool no one with our mask;
Smiling with our hand outstretched in friendship
Whilst clutching a dagger behind our backs.
Then, with great surprise, things turn sour!
We gasp in horror at the cruelty of our adversaries,
Castigating those we exploit.
In denial we consider ourselves blameless
Arrogantly condemning our victims.
Their hatred runs deep and their memories are long.
As we learn not from our mistakes,
Repeated over and over we achieve the same result,
Setting ablaze modern day Rome,
And leaving its citizens to flee in horror.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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 ~~
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 ~~
Look within your heart my wayward son
To where your ancestry lies
At gun’s molten barrel the war won’t be won
No matter how hard you might try
Where did your fathers and mothers come from
No doubt from a long distant shore
Once arriving in America their journey’d begun
Facing more than their hopes bargained for
Fiery rhetoric from the ignorant right
Does nothing but insight hate filled fear
Isolating newcomers who fled terrors fight
Disillusioning their wish to be here
It’s amazing how little this nation’s progressed
Seeing prejudice and racism rear their heads
Taking one step forward then two we regress
Giving in to the hate mongers dread
Perhaps it is time we holster our guns
And temper our fork tongued speech
Instead doing what America should have done
Practicing exactly what we preach
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Crowds of xenophobes
Gather to feast on his bile
Hail to The Donald
The latest right-wing tyrant
Spewing hate to the masses
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Seeing the difference
In every face of color
White supremacy
Since this country’s inception
They have been looked down upon
Even in this day
Absolutely nothing’s changed
Life of denial
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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