Hope for America's Soul

Trump lies kill Americans… shackling hate and drowning hope… His only legacy… …a legacy of death

Donald the Orange,
looming and rotund,
making the Bible his cheap prop.
Boneman, eater of souls…
the nightmare brutalizing decency,
breaking trust, betrayer of humanity
promoter of poverty and death
in a nation held hostage.
The Don’s bellowing mob…
echoing trumpery of lies and rage…
the “Army of Trump”
beating their war drums,
occupied America four years.
Ring in the new year
while the Nightmare Man
plays another round of golf
and bemoans that on no covers
was his porn model displayed

shackling hate and drowning hope…
His only legacy…
…a legacy of death

In the midst of a global pandemic,
Our nation convulses in pain…
four hundred years of racism
carved in the skin of freedom.
Unarmed Black citizens
murdered by policemen…
Our Black brothers and sisters…
…still, they die …still they die
for mere suspicion they die.
while murdering white boys pass unmolested
raving white supremacists
advocating oppression and genocide.
An agenda fueled by illogic and hate
If the “other” cannot be suppressed…
…oppressed to benefit the white race,
then make war against it
Cloak it with a “Christian” veneer
with nothing of Christ in its ideology.

shackling hate and drowning hope…
His only legacy…
…a legacy of death

A bleak dawn last Mother’s Day
saw eighty thousand dead
One hundred thirty thousand
“liberated from life
for Independence Day 2020
two hundred thirty seven thousand, November 3rd
And Merry f*****g Christmas…
THREE HUNDRED THIRTY THOUSAND
grimly marked the day with death
A new year dawns… yet another grim marker
racing toward 400 thousand dead
The fetid promise: So much winning…
Our pleading cry: Are we done winning yet?
America’s next deadly inning
Surpass four hundred thousand lost lives debt
In these few -- still too many -- days to come
The “Chosen One” chooses the vile, arrant lie
Americans die by the Don’s cold killing choice.

shackling hate and drowning hope…
His only legacy…
…a legacy of death

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And yet… and yet…
His days grow short…
We see the hint of light
We rise… we rise…
and cling to hope.
We see the growing glimmer
…the glimmer of hope
dawning with the new year
We embrace the hope…
choose hope and remember…
America rejected the lying rich bully…
the nightmare brutalizing decency…
blackening the soul of America…
offering only degradation and death.
America elected kindness
and chose Scranton’s poor boy
the kind boy with the stutter.
Still, we dare hope for America’s soul.

Illustration by Daniel Garcia

Reviews

[Tate Morgan]

If trump weren’t the ex president it would be easy to laugh off his childish idiocy. He is a narcissist of the third order. He embodies everything a good man is not. Childish infantile brooding jealous bitter. He would’ve fit in really well in the old testament he doesn’t do very well in the new one. Regardless of that of the 68 lawsuits filed on his behalf after the election he lost all but one and that one was inconsequential. Absolutely no evidence to his claims. Feelings and emotions are inconsequential to life just like faith. Facts are all that matter when it comes to truth or lie and his facts are lies

[MomzillaNC]

Truly. But, I cling to the hope of knowing America elected the boy with the stutter over the bully in 2020.

We can only do all we can this November 2022, and work to bring out a massive turnout of moderate and progressive voters so huge as to overwhelm red state gerrymandering. If we can get a super majority, we can make reforms to the Court to undo Trump's stain upon it. Otherwise, Trump will have delivered America into the hands of Dominionist theocratic corporatists for the next thirty or forty years.

[Rev Edward McClelland]

Trump 2024.The greatest President since the civil war. Hoping for a third win with no convenient setup like Covid to allow voter fraud. Biden and the Democrats a train wreck as expected and it is truly amazing how brainwashed and incredibly ignorant and devoid of facts some people are. Do you even pay attention to what is ACTUALLY happening?

[alanwgraham]

Well done for telling it the way it is. Trumps ignorance has put your country through hell. What is hard to understand is why so many are open to his message.
All the best,
Alan

[MomzillaNC]

Sadly, I think I know the reason. The pandemic has to this country and the world, in glaring headlines and human tragedies, that Americans are intensely and inhumanely selfish. Like, a whole swath of Americans are so bone deep selfish they'd burn the whole world and tell you that "you deserve to die if you inconvenience me" kind of way." Moreover, the madness is spreading; just look our north to see how America's inhumanity and selfishness is a more pernicious kind of contagion than the pandemic.

Be afraid, America. Be afraid, world.

[alanwgraham]

Never a truer word was told. I agree completely with you.
Alan

[MomzillaNC]

I wish I could believe I am wrong

[Robert Trakofler]

I read this in Medium or maybe facebook you say so much of how I feel in this poem:)

[MomzillaNC]

You probably followed the link from Facebook to Medium. Thanks for reading it again, Robert!

[barleygirl]

I've been unplugged from politics for a few months, so I'm not thinking about this crap these days, but to be reminded of what this country was dragged thru for 4 years still makes for a pretty excruciating few minutes here as you put things so deliciously blunt! (((HUGS))) Fondly, Margie

[MomzillaNC]

Thank you. Isn't it great to see an administration fulfilling it's promises and fighting for the 99%?

[barleygirl]

Amen, sista! (((HUGS))) That verdict was pretty satisfying, too!

[MomzillaNC]

That verdict is immensely satisfying. Here in NC, the egregious bill dubbed HB2-redux (another anti-transgender bill) defeated in our legislature yesterday -- it will not move forward.

[barleygirl]

YAY!!!! . . .

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

This man is the biggest mistake in American history. He is putting pride over the constitution.

[MomzillaNC]

He is directing armed insurrection!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Trump has lost his balls, not only on the golf course.
He has us all in the rough, and trapped in his sand castle world that is disintegrating now.
j.

[MomzillaNC]

Well said, Jacob. And, those lines you wrote look like the foundation of a castigating poem of your own -- which I would love to read.

In fact, I wish you were a member of my WE PAW Bloggers group on Facebook so you could write that poem and contribute it to our online magazine in Medium.com!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

Thank you, Momz.....but no facebook for this old poet...I tried it twice, and it just isn't for me.

[MomzillaNC]

I know. I just would love to have you in our ezine. But, you must be a member of the group to contribute to the online magazine.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and I do appreciate that, MomZ....
you are a kind soul.
j.

[MomzillaNC]

♥️ 😎