Politics is not the key.
The question is morality.
Where moral degradation reigns
the reins of democracy are strained.
When power cedes
to an ever-increasing greed,
and truth becomes a mere toy.
Politics becomes the ploy
to undermine a constitution
and bind in chains of dissolution
the foundation of a nation’s greatness,
the threat of loss of the basis
for a nation where freedom praises
each individual’s human right
to find her truth in her own light,
and raises fear
that the end is near.
Retribution and retaliation
are not the signs of a strong nation.
Apology for wrongs committed
create a place where forgiveness is permitted.
When morality takes center stage
we more clearly see the hateful rage
that undermines persons and institutions,
and can better resist their dissolution.
No debate, nor speech, nor hearing can rectify
the hypocritical pack of Republican MAGA lies
made with hands on bibles and said with smiles
as the autocrats seek power all the while.
Vote your conscience, not your fear-based preference.
Vote as if your lives and freedoms depended,
against those who would see democracy upended.
Bring back the supporters of a constitution
that promises stability, and seeks solution
instead of a cult of personality
created to destroy morality;
to place in power the greediest among us
with promises of white supremacist
in control, as they have ever been before,
quite willing to leave democracy behind, evermore.
annarino writes 