6 November 2018 - A Crisis that Again will Try Our Souls
Before we vote how we want in our struggle to choose,
And feel like kingmakers for a day,
We should sit in our homes and think of old truths,
And ponder what they seem to say.
For it isn’t a person, a poll, or some partisan jibes,
Whose verdicts on our votes will last.
The judgment that counts above all in our civic lives
Is the one history will ultimately cast!
America’s foundational precepts are clear and concise.
They’ve transcended the tests of both trouble and time,
The ongoing flow of events will charge us with vice
If our votes confer power on corrupt, greedy swine!
We may rejoice at the outcome and beat on a drum,
And think we’re both fortunate and sly,
But if history shows we’ve elected a vile and venomous bum
Then, we’ll struggle to tell our children why.
We can revel and laugh in the ensuing years,
And argue that any problems won’t last,
But our final reward will be infamy and tears
If we betray the ennobling truths dispatched from America’s past!
Larry Conley
16 September 2018
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