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Termites

Would you let termites into your home? The kind that worm their way in with spite, Uninvited and pretending to become Like you, yet all the while sneer, delight In trashing your abode with their teeth, Chewing at your foundations with malice Pray five times a day that your feet Might fall like burnt towers to suffice The hunger of their blind raging anger. Make you fear, bow down to their whims Always offended yet slither their way to power With cunning and guile like snakes it seems, To clothe you with their vain morbid rules, Void the last remnants of your fathers' freedoms Turn leaders to blind puppets, and you, to fools? Would you? Cynthia Buhain-Baello~~11.21.14

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Casarah Nance

Date: 3/29/2016 6:21:00 PM

Compared to some people as well, the destruction in lives, this makes you think about what comes inside. good write Cynthia ;)

Cynthia Buhain-Baello
Date: 3/29/2016 7:17:00 PM

Thank you Casarah Nance. I abhor the deception and the lies, and all that pretense and political maneuvers that make them think all people are fools. We are the government, not politicians and we decide who comes in, who sits in power, who makes laws. When that's taken away, we have a dictatorship and it will always face resistance. Law of nature.

Pete Yuhas

Date: 3/29/2016 2:46:00 PM

Oops, forgot to thank you for visiting, this is a very good write.

Cynthia Buhain-Baello
Date: 3/29/2016 7:13:00 PM

Thanks Pete Yuhas -the unwritten code of poets - "reciprocal appreciation."

Pete Yuhas

Date: 3/29/2016 2:43:00 PM

Cynthia, I read between the lines that you are wishing for a giant Aardvark to move to Washington D.C. and feed on all the termites. You are right, they can't label it hate speech (maybe insect control?)

Cynthia Buhain-Baello
Date: 3/29/2016 7:12:00 PM

Thank you Pete Yuhas - yes this breed is sort of rabid and vicious, quite bent on control by forcing their venomous views on people. I'd like to advance an implementation of resistance that would result in their permanent submission to our views in the immediate future. How's that for rhetoric? (Smile) Cynthia

Daniel Turner

Date: 3/29/2016 8:19:00 AM

Nice write Cynthia. Sounds like somebody is a little upset at some slimy politicians. So sad you don't have the right to say what you think. Peace my friend:)

Cynthia Buhain-Baello
Date: 3/29/2016 7:03:00 PM

Thank you Daniel Turner, yes they try to put a cork on the freedom bottle but there's always a way out. I was going to title this "parasites " too but termites was a little more exact.~~Cynthia

Weston Gregory

Date: 3/28/2016 10:37:00 PM

So much awesome use of metaphor, a sense of a bigger threat is within the imagery. Wow. Up up up

Cynthia Buhain-Baello
Date: 3/29/2016 4:18:00 AM

Thank you Weston Gregory, a subtle jab at reality lest I be charged with hate speech (ha-ha).~~~Cynthia