Gnarly Governance
O tree of liberty,
how much innocent blood
requires thee
to d free?
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Rotted roots now reaches down
into your valorous, egalitarian soil
Corrupt compost ... greedy deeds
fertilizes thy idealistic seeds
Unconstitutional reign
distill covetous showers yielding filthy lucre green
Snakeskin walkers slither in the weeds lusting,
harvest the voting souls with reaper grim threshing
O tree of liberty
corrupt branches have budded,
and presently do governance thee
Slave-minded servile loyalty
blooms a cloying, obeisant scent
Rank and foul speech
be the fragrance of sprouted imperial implements
O tree of liberty,
now misshapen and bent ...
How crooked grows your gnarly governance
Summer season of despair
has turned into fallen leaves
of autumn misery
Gather in the disquieted spirits,
put the tainted crop into fermenting cold storage
Winter surely arrives
with barren nuclear arms of embrace
Feel the hardened bark on the tree of liberty,
so echo detestable ugly and avarice gnarly
Hear the cries of oppression
cresting on the westerly idol breeze
Face the coming spring of perpetual despotism,
eating fallow fruits
from the tree of liberty —
Unkept promises conceiving unkempt vows empty
Feeding withering lies to the dying global citizens;
truth famine starved souls,
whose straitened dreams are ever hungry
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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