Notes About The Poem
Written during the presidential term of Donald Trump. My personal opinions.
A Country Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Thunderbolts split the stormy air.
The campaign for president heats up.
Insults and curses, accusations and lies,
Hate and confusion, poisoned barbs
Aimed at and finding a mark,
Only to be retipped and redirected
Toward the original sender.
Racism, carefully disguised
As safety precautions. For whom?
Religious intolerance in the guise
Again, of our country’s safety,
Deliberately misinterpreting the facts.
Religious zealots posing as victims
So they can self-righteously
Deny others their religious freedom.
Party set against party,
Candidate against candidate,
And people more and more divided.
Whose rights are right, whose are not?
What are rights and what are not?
Deceits and insults the game of the day.
Who can prove the other to have
The most fatally flawed character.
Gone civility - plain and obvious facts
Hidden in a manure pile of lies
Poisoning the air, poisoning the minds
Of those who listen but do not hear,
Of those who see not what is the truth,
But only what they choose to see.
Following the Pied Piper to …….?
*Abraham Lincoln quote
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