Assassination of a Nation’s Soul
What violence and threat to our democracy
has done to me
cannot be undone, it seems.
I watch the source of so much pain
fall to ground, his right ear maimed.
I wonder at the loss of feeling at such sight.
I try to feel something, anything, even fright.
Instead numbness overtakes my soul.
This does not seem the same to me
as the grief I felt for the John or Bobby Kennedy,
for Martin Luther King, Jr. or Medgar Evers;
Cheney, Schwermer and Goodman;
For Malcom X and Viola Luizzo.
Where did my compassion go?
I wish I could say I know.
Suffering is all the same.
Every human being feels its shame.
Even that I cannot feel
as layer by layer the Constitution unravels,
and freedom’s bell no longer peals.
How far my hope has traveled
beyond court decisions and hateful words
meant to appeal to nameless hordes
by those who speak only for themselves,
cheered by those who fill their empty chords.
Surrounded by narcissistic churls
whose images and taunts unfurl
across media’s many avenues,
such violence seemed inevitable.
And, all he cared about was finding his shoes
as others tried to protect his life,
he struggled against their efforts
exposing them to more danger
so he could rise within their safe embrace
and raise a fist in everyone’s face.
Still, I feel nothing.
Neither sorrow nor joy.
Neither faith nor fear.
Neither love or hate.
Neither hope nor mistrust.
Look at what this man and his supporters
have done to us!
annarino writes 
LETTER TO GEORGE WASHINGTON
Dear George,
I write to you
with unfortunate news.
The position you first held
as leader of our new nation
is no more.
The “mister” you insisted
was to be your title,
one you proudly wore,
has been put aside.
“Mister” President is now free
to commit crimes
with immunity.
You put your sizable fortune,
your very life,
your sacred honor
on the line
to create a new nation
where no man is divine.
Each “mister” can be
charged with a crime,
presumed innocent
until found guilty at trial.
All evidence subject to review;
no hiding behind position.
No man above the law.
Until now.
The king you and your patriots
deposed is back in charge.
I mourn the useless
suffering and death at Valley Forge.
The Robert’s Court
threw you, your men and all of us
under the despotic, greedy bus
of those as wealthy as you
and our Founding Fathers were.
They do not use their power of wealth
as you did…for us.
They use theirs with stealth
to rule with absolute immunity
of positional power.
They destroy our nation hour by hour.
We can no longer question
the acts in which crime’s plans are mentioned.
Such Republicans have wrought
what King George the Third could not;
The destruction of our democracy,
and replaced it with autocracy.
My dearest George.
Our republic will soon be no more.
Please pray for us,
I most sincerely implore.
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