How did undocumented –
a civil infraction –
reduce people to ‘bodies’?
And how did empathy –
observation and support –
merit death by gunshot?
When we stretch for explanations –
to fit the violent rhetoric –
are we too not complicit in crime?
Red, blue, it’s all intolerable –
the global stage is watching –
a nation in rapid decline.
“He’ll burn it all down,”
we’d been warned –
prophetic at that.
The terror escalates,
the system no longer works,
people are uprising to stunned silence
Where is the hand of justice,
governance for and of the people,
a nation for all….gone?
Greed drives this destructive machine.
Cut off the source of fuel, methinks –
if power is to act out empathy.
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