A hamfisted attempt at a poem...in despair and dark, words can soothe or harm and I need help to see faintest lights.

[Moostache]

Oh humanity! Why do you weep?
Woe to you, liberty. How can you sleep?

Oh America!
Your path hidden from sight, lost to chaos and to ruin.
250 gone so soon?

How much beauty and life have we cast aside?
in service of false gods of attention or craven lords of capital?

How much love and peace have we allowed to be stolen?
without a murmur of protest or public notice?

How much hate and evil have we watched?
silently sorrowful and tearful, but unmoved to act?

How much of our very soul has been cast down and sacrificed?
upon the altar of greed?
for a congregation of thieves?

What was is past,
what follows now is cast.

There was a light in the dark,
made hidden as if put out,

But not all is stark,
or remains forever rout.

Forget not
those dreams of the past,

Rise once more!
Re-engage at last.

Ring it out and join the host...
Sing it proud from coast to coast.

Clutch the truth and damn the lie,
for great ideas never die!

[Walleye]

1. All so achingly true.

I said somewhere else I feel like a devout Catholic who’s lost her faith in God. The one thing I had to believe in was the United States as a moral compass, and an idea. We the goddamn people!!

[Moostache]

2. I feel your pain all to acutely...

I do feel in no small part like a grief-stricken lover who has been informed of a loss too terrible and numbing to feel yet...definitely dazed, hurt and agonizing.

[Karadeniz]

3. LOVE IT !!! THANKS FOR POSTING !!!!

[Clouds Passing]

4. Thank you Moostache. Touching.

[debm55]

5. Thank you so much my dear Moostache. You touched my soul with your beautiful and heartfelt poem. I will give you a hug

for the hearts that you touched.Love, Deb.

[red dog 1]

6. Very nice!

You've inspired me to write one of my own.


I toil all day from dawn to dusk
Doing the Bluesky hashtag dance
My favorite two are #NaziMusk
And #ResistVonShitzInPantz

[Moostache]

7. Much more succinct! Loved it! (n/t)