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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.