Madeleine, O Madeleine

Madeleine, O Madeleine

Lecture them Maddie, O lecture them well,

Those young women who don’t fall in line.

With party rhetoric meant to overwhelm

Them, as if rotten grapes fallen from the vine.

 There is a place for all in her party,

Just one place actually, for like schools of thought.

Diversity in this case is not hearty

With branches differently brought.

Religion and politics dare mix

When politicians wax wrecklessly with theology.

The many mansions in my Father’s house is the fix;

Scolding and oppressing young sisters tests Maddie’s own soteriology.

If “there’s a special place in hell

For women who don’t help each other,”

There’s a complementary comparison as well.

Like the party, hell has no diversity and will smother?

Madeleine, O Madeleine,

We know what you’re thinking.

Your young women have not fallen in line

 And friend Hillary’s future is sinking.

Madeleine, O Madeleine, hell hath no fury

Like a scorned candidate’s pride.

Perhaps a young women’s jury

Is saying farewell as William mourns his desperate bride.

Madeleine Albright's "special place in hell ..." short video