SAD BUT TRUE

I love writing poems and muses
It is a healthy release
Many times I can say
In a line or two
What others can’t say
In thirty or more or
Even ever

There is much to say
And I am willing
So much truth
Has to be told
I am not in denial
I do not like lies

Like the climate crisis
Or parading inactivity
As amazing accomplishments
Handed to you 
By someone else’s actions

I do not like
Unequal justice
The poor in poor schools
Always with the promise
That things will get better
When we need you again

An epidemic covered
The need for truth

Deceit and fraud
Were more convenient
Who could argue
When they were dead

Control was easy
When you had the upper hand
Defund the police
Is not an answer

Releasing criminals to
Rape and murder again
To save them from the Covid-19

But arrest and jail
Someone for not
Wearing a mask

Promises made
To provide for free
Services that others
Will pay for
Print more money
Tax our grandchildren

Can we remove ourselves
From fantasy land?

Open our borders
To illegals and criminals
Drugs and human traffic

Raise corporate taxes
Chasing business elsewhere
Competing countries
Laugh at us

The occupant
Almost fifty years
With nothing to show
Except unfair jailing

And an alliance with China
Big Guy did it
Along with his son
Then in one hundred days
He destroyed our nation

How sad
I pray for help

Stanski
April 29, 2021 ^