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Ten days left before we turn right?
Ten days until bleakness blinds our sight.
Have we gone so far there is little left
of democratic values clutched to our chests?
Ten days left to fight the fascist storms
unleashed across every institution,
destroying all norms.
Ten days left to remain free,
a freedom based on hypocrisy
and built on lives shipped
across international waters,
slaves to barter and build an economy
upon flayed backs, our own souls slaughtered.
Entertainment is our strongest ally
allowing full inattention to hide
the deadening ignorance that blankets our pride.
The conscience our forefathers followed
has no place in a nation who souls are hollowed
by power and greed’s need to be seen,
even if only on social media screens.
Muscles clenched in taut abdomens
where fear tends to hide
we try our best to hold onto our pride.
Ten days left to turn the fascist tide.
We are not perfect.
It is perfectly true.
But we always keep going forward.
We always try to improve.
Ten days are both too many and too few
to hold a nation together,
for free people to weather
the threat of old evils made new.
Ten days left.
I am counting on you.
Vote!
annarino writes 