Almost a year
since the election
and the time has taken its toll:...
Lost sleep, lost dreams, lost hope,
broken hearts and bodies
drowning in fear and tears.
Around us,
the world gets dirtier, nastier,
dumber, devolution and decay
outstripping even common entropy.
Tearing down
is always easier
than building,
demolition and destruction
easier than
the thoughtful shaping
of a just world,
and these men
are the masters of chaos.
Their world has no foundations
or building blocks.
It’s a wasteland
of greed and self interest,
filled with the ruins of institutions
of learning and light,
scavenged to put up
cobbled-together walls
by the people
who think
good fences make good neighbors.
–November 2, 2017
