Never Silenced
We write
We record it all
We are afraid
Afraid to hug
Even our loved ones
Or approach anyone
We are locked in our homes
There’s a monster outside
An invisible vicious killer
Who can stop our breathing
Choke us on our own fluids
A killer who can live long
Even when no one is there
It’s lurking everywhere
So we try to be nowhere
We are scared for our kids
For our elders
And even ourselves
This is the wrong time
To lack a competent
US president
We have a blithering idiot
Instead of a leader
The worst president ever
Was still better by far
Than this wicked con
Who speaks no truth
Denies his outright lies
Who says it’s no problem
And prescribes snake oil
From his bully pulpit
Just be calm he says
Let’s steady the market
To save the stockholders’ bucks
He is visibly insane
It’s hard not to see
But still his flunkies
Listen and let him be
Loosed upon us
His passion is only for money
And his own needful fame
He is evil like the root
Which he lusts for
With heavy breath
And hooded eyes
For money he deceived
And hoped to hide
Truth and the toll
He salivates for more
And more
Money
He seeks accolades
Hordes of worshiping fans
Who oblige from their blindness
We face the worst of times
With no strong sane hands
On the wheel to guide
So we careen
This way and that
Threatening to sink
Our nation
People
God help us
Our own beloved people
Must die… alone
Gasping for breath
In this wretched time
Isolated from loved ones
No hand to hold
No funerals can be had
Can’t go to pay our respects
No comforting each other
For the monster lurks
Even in our tears
And in the bodies
Of its victims
Our own beloved
We are told it gets worse
By people who know
While still he denies
But so good it would be
How brave we could be
If only an adult were in charge
Who was neither vain
Nor mad dog crazy
We must rid ourselves of him
Or that crazy old man
And the monster
He allowed to run ahead
Will see us all dead
Our leader won’t miss us
He’ll be glad to see some go
Especially the most irksome
And noisy troublesome
Like we who write
And speak up
And never shut up
Who are afraid
But not silenced
Never silenced
We will tell the story
Over and over
In a multitude of ways
With multiple voices
Until we all die away
Someday not now
Not all of us
We are millions
We will live to tell it
In glaring detail
This will be captured
All will be told
To save the future
From our regrets
To show it matters
Who we elect
