Idols
When your idols are fragile
Is it any wonder kids lack style
Perhaps if we walked a mile
In the shoes of the soldier we'd attain guile
Look at the newspaper
The government is a caper
And everything will taper
Due to greed and paper
Veterans are homeless begging for scraps
And Millennials are told to lace up their bootstraps
As if that will close the economic gaps
But it won't until everyone snaps
Racism festers and restores lingering resentment
It's in this division the establishment finds contentment
Even as the foundation crumbles with discontentment
Some still pretend this land is resplendent
It doesn't start at the level federal
But that's where disaster breeds as if on schedule
Some think this mess is residual
But I blame the ignorant individual
When the leaders are weak
People find in demagogues what they seek
They supposedly offer mystique
But truthfully their ideas are antique
Popular music is filled with trash
And how many cars have to crash
Before someone feels the backlash
Of this idiotic splash
We the people once defeated slavery
Because we knew it to be unsavory
But now we lack bravery
To stand up to knavery
Our democracy is broken
With fear and trepidation awoken
The fear mongers have spoken
And I'm honestly heartbroken
We once claimed the final frontier
Through blood, sweat, and tears
We conquered our greatest fear
And proved we had no peers
Truth is we never championed the free
And it's all here for you to see
So they request you bend the knee
So you can't see the fallacy of the nominee
We have to listen when the predecessor tells us we have to fight
And we have to see he's absolutely right
The time is now to muster our might
It's in our American spirit that we eradicate this blight
Black, White, Asian, or Hispanic
We can rise above and defeat this panic
And defeat a man so manic
And bring peace back to the Atlantic
This is not a fight between Conservatism and liberalism
This is a battle of fantasy and realism
And whether we believe in idealism
It's time to unite against surrealism
We stand at a precipice where we can come together
And show unity exists outside of fair weather
Or we can simply give in to the chains and tether
As if our beliefs weigh as much as a feather
When our idols are fragile
It's no wonder kids lack style
Now that we've walked the last mile
We can see this fight is worthwhile
Copyright © Christopher Goss | Year Posted 2018
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