RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: AMERICAN DEMOCRACY
Empowering the Beast
They all bowed down
When he handed out favors
From the mindless rabble
To our elected leaders
The blind followed the blind
The faithful followed the faithless
A self-sustaining movement
Among sheep it was contagious
They lauded him with praise
Regaled him with promises
Lifted up his word and image
Empowered him with rage
He caged children and they cheered him
Built a wall and they revered him
When he praised a despot they looked away
He pardoned thugs and criminals
Shook down foreign heads of state
Surrendered to a deadly plague
They shrugged with nothing to say
He incited a mob attack
To demonstrated his strength
Break down the walls of congress
Break through their iron gates
He filled their hearts with terror
They cowered and peeled away
Incredulous and dumb
They disown the monster they created
The beast they prodded on
Father forgive us they plead
We know not what we’ve done
We empowered this brutal tyrant
We thought he was the chosen one
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