Saturday morning;
dawn rises on a new day.
Saturn’s history at play
beyond ancient Rome’s sway.
We wonder if he will be made to pay
for destroying Saturnalia’s gifts.
This is no Christian’s Christmas Day
created to hide his pagan ways.
This Saturnus is defective ,made of clay
which changes shape day after day.
Inside the gas giant on display
in the heavens worlds away
raging storms churn and flay
rallying followers
drawn by his magnetic field
into icy rings that circle and shield
this Titan who seeks to wield
total power over the field;
not of wheat and grass and grain,
but of institutions threatened again
by fear and hate and retribution.
That is this Titan’s contribution.
He threatens every man, woman and child.
He devours even his infant son
held in his own arms but seen as a threat
to his control and power
which he worries over hour after hour.
This defective Saturn’s trials have just begun.
We wonder if courts will justice deal
before the Titan destroys all we love
because he cannot love, but only fear.
November votes bring new beginnings.
We can choose decency with heart;
choose freedom and love, or our end is near.
annarino writes 