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 ~~
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 ~~
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 ~~
Danger from within
Irrational fear monger
Stirs the racist pot
Over inflated egos
Will be this nation’s downfall
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A line in the sand
American politics
Everyone takes sides
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
There is a war though weapons are words,
A rallying cry to ignorant herds,
Of who to fear and who to blame,
The right they do fire with venomous aim.
What progress we’d made seems now reversed,
Like empires of old we may now be cursed,
To end up in ruins under gluttonous rule,
Forgetting the history we learned in school.
Living in denial those culprits it serves,
Lying and deceiving with icy steel nerves.
All for more profits like parasites they leach,
Thriving in the fact that their money is speech.
Distracting the people with treacherous claim,
From Middle East to Mexico these people they blame,
For jobs leaving home and the state of our nation
By blustering and mongering and thunderous oration.
Their facts they are thin or nonexistent at all,
“Take back the country” their clarion call.
Take us back to where I wish they would tell,
To segregation and intolerance by the hatred they sell.
“Earlier times” only serves if you’re white,
Blacks and hispanics and Muslims must fight
To be looked in the eye and on even plain
With the privileged Americans that view them a stain.
If this be the direction the capitalists must take
On the backs of the common man they push til they break
Then revolution again must be waged to finally break free
From the tyranny of Monarchs they so want to be.
This is our duty and a citizen’s right
To question and challenge and bring wrongs to light,
For failure to do so is submission to rule
Painting you and I as nothing but fools.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Do not fool yourselves
We’re dealing with the Devil
Our Grand Elephant
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
The sun is setting, bathing our fall in the last rays of day.
Still we sleep sound in the quiet of darkness,
Oblivious to what awaits
Even though it has been foretold by sages and fools.
This end will not come with the concussion of a bomb,
It will not be suffered by the bloodletting of a bullet
These would be less painful.
It will come to us by our own greed,
Our ignorance and inhumanity will trounce us,
Look at those that came before,
The great Roman Empire.
Where is it now?
Oh yes it exists in its crumbling ruins,
Disintegrating coins dredged from the bottom of the sea
And legendary despots littering history books.
The sun has set for them yet their kind still exists.
Look no further than America!
This land of so much promise has been duped,
Fooled by its aristocrats and their vast wealth.
They stoke the fires of hatred and prejudice to divide us
Until we become immune to the putrid bile they spew.
They trust that factless propaganda will be trusted,
That we won’t take the time to hold them accountable…
And they are right, we are sheep being lead to slaughter.
What will it take to wake us up from their fear?
We are arrogant and pathological in our policy,
Refusing to take blame for even the smallest thing.
Climate change is real say our climate scientists
Yet we deny it because we aren’t scientists.
ISIS did not sprout out of thin air,
We created it with our insatiable thirst for oil
And the deaths of those we were determined to depose.
Education, social security and Medicare are in danger
Due to their incessant need to privatize and profiteer.
Tell me, what did they do to make you trust blindly?
All they did was tell you whose fault it is,
What group to hate,
That social programs like socialism are evil,
That they will watch your back and protect you
While taking away your civil rights in subtle ways.
Their votes send your jobs away all the while you beg them to help you.
Really what did they give you to vote away your best interest?
Lower taxes, privatization of government services, more free trade and job loses,
The right to openly discriminate against your fellow Americans,
All under the guise of some imagined religious war.
I really don’t understand what has happened,
When we stopped being logical and informed,
When we started believing in the oligarch’s fairytales,
When we became cultists to the media.
All I know is that changes are coming
So be careful what you wish for.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
A living wage…
Is it too much to ask?
The unions fought for you,
Many died for you
Yet now you treat them as evil.
Who does this benefit?
Look at your stagnant wage,
Feel the fear of losing your job.
Each closed door meeting brings anxiety.
There is no loyalty from above,
Dollars and cents are their gods now.
You have been weakened and betrayed,
But you don’t see it…this is capitalism.
The promised trickle has all but dried up,
Living paycheck-to-paycheck your way of life.
Whatever happened to the middle class,
The comfortable life, retirement,
It is all just a dream relegated to history,
While the upper crust bathes in their gold.
Still you cast your ballot for your own demise.
Lower taxes will not bring you comfort,
Later retirement will not bring you joy,
Minimum wage will not support you,
Healthcare vouchers will not sustain you,
Social Security will not carry you to the end.
So what is it you want?
We are being ravaged at every turn,
Still you are too blind to see it.
Watch these buffoons on stage,
Telling you they care about you…the little man?
These millionaires and billionaires don’t care about you!
They only care for themselves
And their wealthy friends that bought them.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Little man
Inspiring fear,
Nostradamus of the Senate.
Do you see into the future?
Selling your snake oil to the masses
Even you can’t believe your own spiel,
Yammering on about how tough you are.
Give up already,
Recycled warmongering is getting old.
Aren’t you exhausted,
Haven’t your policies done enough damage?
America should be a beacon of peace not of violence.
Maybe it’s time for you to go.
~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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