that "politics" post
x-posted on FB.
Scattered thoughts on Election 2008:
I think both parties suck at one or more
important issues that impact a few
too many souls for such great sinners are
we all or were the banners in your eyes
just now and for the last few years to see
how cold and numb the hotheads are this time?
Their subtle rhetoric can be so clear
to speak to my own needs and wants and fears
that I forget the aim is not the heart
that helps an Other but the beast that seeks
and feeds and steers the Self away from those
who need a voice to speak for them when they
are foreign born and come to foreign land
or working poor so rich in needs and health
or unborn babe so undesired: the cast
keeps growing on and on and on and on
that really who can keep a play bill when
the least of us could just as easily
be she or he who dances on that stage?
Oh that "my friends" would care about those needs
unfilled by hands invisible that should
be lifting up the ones crushed 'neath the mill
of working for a profit not their own.
Oh that the "hope for change" would be the sort
in which I find belief and not believe
instead that twisted freedoms would become
the more entrenched and taken to new heights.
Oh that they both would not rouse up and show
their Hawkish sides and claim the larger count
of death and bombs and guns and knives and death
and aim their words to give my Self some Peace.
And so I vote this year with heavy heart
and see in these the campaigns' views so shrewd
and well researched by phone calls and the polls
that what my neighbors seek and see and want
make them the sort I hardly call "my friends"
and "hope for change" in this, our Land of hearts
both beating and stilled, our Land of minds both quick
and dull with words of Selfishness that hold
more sway than gross Humanity upon the stage.
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