No photo, in deference
to our sensibilities.
The ashes of democracy
taste bitter in the mouth,
voices sickened, sorrowing,
filled with gloom,
and the certain feeling
filled with gloom,
and the certain feeling
of being doomed
to live a reality we never
thought we'd see, and yet
here we are, and it has
come to be.
The hard-eyed faces, mostly white,
the fists raised in salutes
to the angry king,
his eyes hardest of all,
his eyes hardest of all,
as he reveals his terrible plan,
spouting his obsessed untruths,
to rule like a tyrant
because now he can.
to rule like a tyrant
because now he can.
And even drunk
with all his power,
the Angry King
in his brightest hour,
is still not happy,
still is mad,
at all he feels
he should have had.
with all his power,
the Angry King
in his brightest hour,
is still not happy,
still is mad,
at all he feels
he should have had.
Where is outrage? where dissent?
They bow and smile to the terrible king,
that they've made god of Everything.
Hoping they'll be spared the lash,
they bend, servile, to kiss his ring.
It is indeed scary how people followed suit to not incur his wrath. Let’s hope the truth will out
ReplyDeleteOne thing about it, none of these faux kings seem happy at all, and they never will be. Nothing can ever fill their gaping emptiness.
ReplyDeleteIts a shock to see the flag of our Western democracy ripped down so awfully, cruelly & wantonly by its new master. This is the defining signature of the digital age, the disquiet of the disrupt unmasked by the usurper machine. Yikes.
ReplyDeleteYou have captured it so well, Sherry. You are right...despite all, he still is not happy about 2020. And all the bowing and smiling gets to me!! Good poem.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Shay, there is nothing that can fill the cavern of emptiness in them.
ReplyDeleteA lot of people really expect good things from Trump. I think he's going overboard with the executive orders. Of course they were things a lot of people had wanted for a long time. He was able to sign so many so fast because there was a popular mandate, and people had printed them off and just brought them in one after another. But I could wish for a President who understands that rushing through executive orders is following a bad precedent, and person needs to do things the traditional way, with the popular mandate AND the Congress.
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well, yes. on the other hand, no choice but to keep raising our voices against the hurricane. the winds being fanned will burn far wider than they realize or can control. i hold no false hope for the power of resistance, just in the small powers we yet still have. to exist. to endure, while we can. in the end, he'll be dust, too. ~
ReplyDeleteThis poem reads like something out of mythology, Sherry, or a fable of the Angry King. How it will end will be the lesson for ages to come. I love how the poem scans, powerful too in its cadences.
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