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Poetry On Odyssey: Devastation In Democracy

Why our country is in shambles.

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Poetry On Odyssey: Devastation In Democracy
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Oh Say Can You See?

How this country is running to the ground?

How our children don't matter?

How his tax information can't be found?

How his Presidency makes me sadder?

How each day our constitutional rights are being infringed upon?

How a nuclear war is at dawn?

How being a woman is a pre-existing condition?

How going to college means paying six figure tuition?

Is Public school education the pawn

For wealthy people to play on the lawn?

How the tax cuts for the 1%

Means someone in the inner-city can't afford this month's rent

I guess Making America Great Again

Equates to another vacation, where his money isn't being spent

There was a separation of church and state

Now the clergy can imply lay people how you vote

How what's important in this country is if you have the most

How some citizens can't remember the last time they ate

Now it's more of a challenge for the youth to graduate

I'm tired of seeing a female President portrayed as fiction

Allison Taylor, Melanie Grant, Claire Haas, Claire Underwood

Portraying a President only on TV is clearly understood

See how women still make less than a man

How men won't stop interfering with our reproductive rights

I just don't understand

See how people are still being slaughtered in broad daylight

How sexual harassment is seen as a joke to those in power

How some people need to run the country instead of tweeting at night

How it's 60 degrees in December, and 50 degrees in May

Yet Global Warming doesn't exist...

The signs are all present, yet a certain political parties still insists

How African Americans are told to get over slavery

Yet, we are still captured, slaughtered, and in chains you see?

Gentrifying our neighbors and taking over like usual

Then follows the typical colonization, devastation, and appropriation

Then you cry reverse racism when the oppressed voice their opinions

Yet you will never understand what it feels like to be under your dominion

See how millennials are constantly blamed for everything

Yet the world and it's problems are on our shoulders

We graduate from college and can't obtain a job

Some work minimum wage with a degree

While our President tarnishes our "democracy "

The precedent that is being created is unfortunate

It appears anyone can be President if they are wealthy, white, male, and a bigot

See how disturbing it is when the leader of the "Free World" incites hatred and division

The crimes that he commits he dodges with such precision

When will he be held liable for his actions?

As African Americans are punished for the color of their skin

When will individuals with a platform use their voices to create meaningful movements

Instead of exhibiting violence, sex, and wasteful extravagance

When can the future children of this country be treated with respect and dignity

It's a shame our country is being run by a celebrity

Instead of scapegoats to blame your failed educational reform on

When can we exercise our First Amendment rights to promote change?

Instead of being seen as uncivil and unpatriotic

When will we actually "Make America Great" for all citizens?

Instead of waiting for the businessman to continue to ruin millions of lives

Under his Presidency we will all have to strive to survive

While the wealthy watch us suffer as they thrive

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