Tuesday, June 17, 2014

dance, america ?


i am anguished
        angry within

      disenchanted
         disheartened
            disgusted
 
                  observing the incomprehensible
daily, ugly words are spoken and written
             so much ignorance   
         unmitigating human insensitivity
                   
         why so much uncaring
                  so many hungry
                           so many hurting
 
                       we choose to kill
          rather than save life
 
    choose to hate
                 rather than understand

          contaminate rivers, oceans
                        fill the air with poison
                             both with smog and words 

if we wish to correct or try to speak up
          we are scolded:

   “…if you don’t like this country then leave,
…we like the mire we live in, we like our guns,
    …the government is our enemy so we don’t vote
      …we are a country of rules and laws
…if I don’t like you, you’re not following my rules,
      and your breaking my laws
              i must use my gun or prisons i built
…i’m a Christian because i go to church for an hour on Sundays
       …everybody in america should be a Christian?
   ..Jews and Muslims should convert, force all those other
                  fake religions to self deport
        then we'd all get along with our own kind,
           ...then we'd have our own President not a Kenyan 

america, can we learn a different dance, ok? 



* for Marian @imaginary garden with real toads: 

6 comments:

  1. I hear you, my friend. It is hard to rise above all of that crap and remember Spirit, Beauty and Truth. But it is there, still, even on days when it is near impossible to find. Well expressed - you nailed it.

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  2. The tune we dance to matters! First, it seems, we each have to realize we are dancing. Powerful poem, Marcoantonio.

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  4. indeed we should learn a very different dance! very apt reflection, thank you.

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  5. This is a powerful statement, Marco and I applaud you for stating your viewpoint so boldly, despite the fact that it could be controversial.

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  6. Oh, how I wish we could learn a dance other than the Stomp It All Beneath the Hobnail Boot dance that this nation tends to favor. Of course I've wished this for a long time. This country has taken a far right turn in the wrong direction during the past 20 years.

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