Broken Brain, Empty Heart

Broken Brain, Empty Heart

Reciting lies, repeating conspiracies
And regurgitating insults
Reveals a broken brain
Coughing incoherence
An empty heart
Devoid of enlightenment and empathy
A mirror of malice and malevolence
Dressed up in a suit
Pummeling people from a podium as
An erupting volcano of
Gripes and grievances.

The pied piper of polluting mendacity
Throwing mud on walls
Never long enough to stick
Falls into a million little pieces
Fools fawning over the fool
The village idiot
Offers snake oil solutions
Bleach to clear out a virus
Betraying common sense
A playground bully
Rude, crude and coarse.

Rodomontade without boundaries
He is on full blast with impunity
A constant stream of anger
An incessant need to feed
Unabashed narcissism
With an orange tanned face
Making a unfounded claim
To lead an insurrection
Overthrow a democracy
So wrong on so many levels
And God is watching.

We the people form a perfect union
Building unity from diversity
Equality and justice
Along with freedom
Must never be traded
For security and autocracy
The angry right is totally wrong
Cruelty can’t replace compassion
Our faces reflect a rainbow
Our glow the face of hope
Our destiny to shine as stars!

Copyright © 2024 Charles Edward York
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