Notes About The Poem
The wide sweeping fires engulfing Los Angeles, January 2025, and surrounding areas in California are believed to have been preventable. Many voices point to the lack of leadership by Gov Newsome and apparent indifference by Mayor Karen Bass. The reservoirs were dry, no water pressure in the hoses because there was no water. Fireman had no tools, nothing to fight the devastating fires with. While Gov Newsome whines about "not getting straight answers from lower level managers", people in California already know what happened and who is to blame.
Ashes, Ashes
Ashes, Ashes, Flames all around
And remnants of our lives are scattered
Upon the crackling, smoking ground.
Our hopes and dreams buried in the rumble,
Lost are the things that we thought measured our lives.
Nothing left but our memories. It cuts like a knife.
We trusted our treasure, our futures, our dreams
Into the hands of a criminal who is not what he seems.
What do we do now, where do we turn?
His incompetence destroyed our world.
Everything is burned.
Selfish, greedy, indifferent, ruined.
Remove him from power, and all of his kind.
He will no longer control our money,
Our actions, or our mind.
We see through the smoke now.
His true colors of black and gray.
His lies no longer charm us.
There is nothing left he can say.
A vote of NO CONFIDENCE,
A movement rising.
Vote him out of power,
Fallen from his ivory tower.
Shock of the raging fires have awakened our rage.
We are no longer sheep. Burned down is our cage.
Free to see the truth at last. Free to choose again.
Now we come together, rising up as one.
Taking back our power and standing our ground,
We choose a new direction. Freedom will be found.
Copyright Chula Schlesinger-Fleming © 12.04.25
Copyright © Chula Schlesinger-Fleming | Year Posted 2025
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