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Competitive Campaigning Results Are In
Joy for me means that
You are here where I once sat
Clutching the reigns
Playing political games
Taking over my tasks
Saying ‘I am not wearing any deceptive masks’
Making decisions
Moving into position
No longer in a hurry
I do not worry
Since I had nothing to bury
I told the truth
When things hit the roof
Reality came showing fall out
Leaving people to shout
Joy for means that
You are sitting where I once sat
Cooling the heat
Reclining in the hot seat
Doing my beat
Claiming I was a cheat
Go ahead you sit there
Do not look like you have a scared
Are you ready and prepared?
Realizing it is now all your affair
Getting the power play chair
Such a dare
Strategized by your pair
Joy for me means that
You sit where I once sat
Choked up on the bat
Ready to hit the home run
Since this competition you won
Here I go
With what I know
Shall I take in an entertainment show
While at the party you will glow
And in a couple of years
You will be the one in tears
While I chat it up at the local pub having beers
Enjoying the scene having nothing to fear
Watching you take the press club spear
After being hunted down like a defenseless deer
Am I afraid to lose
Is that what you accuse?
I have here this stage
Maturity living out my adult age
A podium to protect me
Which you all could see
Asking if I am afraid to lose
Hearing the protest and boos
Knowing what I have done
Seemingly having too much fun
Now today
I must say
My competitor used the event
That I spent
Inside my public servant office tent
To make me look bad
Desperate and sad
Listening to the complaints
From those denouncing ‘I am a saint’
Challenging the one who did paint
My portrait
On the wall it fit
Waiting to have a neighbor
Image has the likeness to my invader
Tell me if I lose
Are you going to accuse?
The new one everyone decided to choose
Or are you going to refuse
The winner whose
Ready to lose
Since I am not afraid
Of not making the grade
Instead, I will be proud of what I made
Not allowing a trade
That would result in the raid
Being defeated
Now kindly beat it
This issue needs not to be repeated
Instead
It is dead
That is what I said
Now put your story to bed
Copyright ©
Marc O'Brien
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