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Hate's Campaign
Our world is changing in a profound way
through the philosophy of fear and lies.
You can't trust a word politicians say;
they connive and editorialize.
And legislate laws that legitimize
bigotry and greed for personal gain.
The tactics they employ to terrorize
are indispensable to hate's campaign.
Dictators strip democracy away
so-slow; people don't even realize.
Tyrants interject God into the fray,
persecuting any who criticize.
The ignorant are taught to demonize
the poor and weak as the root of their pain.
Ways to justify and rationalize
are indispensable to hate's campaign.
Potentates kill people for being gay,
murder is just something to televise.
Soulless, pretending to believe, they pray,
for faith is so simple to synthesize.
Bigotry's easy to popularize
despite knowing it's wrong and inhumane.
Labor camps and barbed walls that militarize
are indispensable to hate's campaign.
Fascism's starting to materialize
and show its ugly face, yet once again.
Empty promises that destabilize
are indispensable to hate's campaign.
Copyright ©
Emile Pinet
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