Collapse
No center to hold.
Neither left nor right,
But countless factions
Ready to fight.
Have you even noticed
America in disarray?
Tensions heighten
Day by day.
She murders her future
While in the womb.
She ignores her past
Granting elders an early
tomb.
Affluence is a factor,
Yes, foreign foes, too.
Raw hatred to those who dare
oppose
Is what we choose.
In politics
There used to be
A loyal opposition
To challenge or to agree.
It was a way
For ideas to enter
Into discussion.
It forged a center.
But a readiness
That kills
By anonymous assassins
Delivers gratuitous
thrills.
Common ground is lost
To zeitgeist feeling,
Replacing our foundation
Sending us nationally reeling.
Founding mothers and
fathers
Squirm in their graves
As their legacy
Become new slaves.
Freedom not enough.
Wealth bad.
Prosperity illusive.
Life sad
So, say the spoilers,
Those who were spared life’s
trials.
They assert an expertise
With arrogant smiles,
Yet they have
No experience.
Their expertise
Is masked, and nefarious.
But what you don’t want to hear is
That America’s beginning
Was Christ-based,
Her foundational underpinning.
America’s start,
Like the Exodus of old,
Experimented with freedom.
That
is the center to hold.
