Futures

I worry for the future
 disappointed in these power games 
  those in charge play yet never suture.
They seem to act maliciously
 for the populace but for themselves 
  they alone are all that matter ambitiously.
What of the common man or woman
 the average Jane, Jose, Mark and Malik 
  who struggle everyday just to be citizen most human?
The power mongers say quite bold and  loudly
 they feel the heartbeat of the masses
  while satisfying their wants unashamed and proudly.
Nothing changes
 or if it does it has miniscule effect 
  evaporating in the non-contritional rhetoric.
Republican or Democrat policies assume
 they are truly donkeys and elephants 
  in the senate and congressional rooms.
Alt rights or alt lefts and conservative liberals
 lay in the backgrounds shouting and screaming
  foul play as if they were pseudo embedded federals.
All the while these decision makers 
 grow wealthier hiding their greed 
  and displaying egos as the sole givers and takers.
I have lost faith's blade
 in every word each repetitiously and gratuitously speak
  and see the coming years as promise lost to the lathe.
I worry for the futures yet to come
 the generations left with this foolishness to expunge
  how will history record the age of America undone?

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