I voted for you cuz I believed in you
or maybe I just wanted to...
Where's that change you were talkin about?
Or were those words just liquid letters
spilling from your eloquent elastic mouth?
It's time for that progressive thought and further radical action,
action that actually screams louder than the legislative hype
that has dulled down our slow demise
of generations over time.
Not the proverbial bipartisan tea party scones
cuz you don't wanna step on impressionable toes.
Wake up. Because this is it.
The status quo doesn't flow anymore
and the centuries of lies don't jive
I dream of swimming in oil
and guns that shoot us but we don't die
I squirm about dead things floating in the ocean
and of desecrated bodies that waste away
in the western Asian sand.
Our country is unengaged
and I'm tired of being enraged about things
everyone else ignores.
You're becoming another powder wig
hiding behind this championed realpolitik
and beautifully pitched quotes.
You still won't ask the begging questions
hidden in the age long riddles
knowing the revolt they might ignite.
Corporate, or otherwise.
I know you're not the hero
we were looking to try for in ourselves
to have the jones to make right on what's righteous
but instead you will be the embodiment
of everything we failed.
This shallow republic will look to blame you
for the rotting of its soft American core
So even though it began its decay
long before you were born
it will devour you as it devours itself
choosing martyrs regardless
of monumental decisions
or your simple insignificance.
This is where we begin again.
You will either let us believe in your promise of hope
or you can give us death
because we're getting to that final moment
where that's all that's left.
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