Tuesday, March 5, 2024

QUARANTINE LIFE: POETRY PROMPT—SUPER TUESDAY


THE CANDIDATES 

Are they speaking for you

Or enriching themselves?

Are their own likes and wants

Filling cupboards and shelves?

ARE they the best reps 

As so many insist

Or do they talk the good game

Of opportunists?


Are they selling you out

As they build for their own?

Once installed, are they still

The good people you’ve known?

Are the things they relay

On public forum floors 

The same things they say

Behind private, closed doors?


When they speak of “The People”

Does that include you?

Will they care how their actions

Affect what you do?

Are their promises solid

Or merely antics

Is Justice just not welcome in politics?


Why is there rarely an obvious choice

When the lesser of two evils

Uses its voice

To support what’s contemptible, wrong, and unfair

Indecision and apathy pollute the air

History repeated; integrity lost

While those harmed and impacted

Are counting the cost…









VRWc2024



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