WWP 125: The Write to Vote /for Oct. 3,2012

The Write to Vote
Where oh where has Congress gone?
On another vacation...just after having had the summer off...
The ‘news’ focuses on negativity counting on naivety.
And yet that seems to be politics as usual.

Control the spin, uncontrollable damage be damned.
Right and left, it’s just fodder for late night talk show hosts
who find security in laughter - while the truth tears out destiny -
Tears stream from our eyes. Or was our fate really lost long ago?

Just as the dinosaur fossilized fuels that pass
for gas and coal, now attempt to help us find independence -
well at least for the next one hundred years or so before the next
crisis and future crash of vast unknown proportions is found

all to have been the underlying poison of what once was a solvent system
(was it ever so)...now raped and pillaged, named so is the well
of hope, that was let to run dry from day one...but kept a secret
because the masses would surely have revolted by now...

And then there is opinionated radio talk show host declares he is confused
as to why only eight percent of the current populous is interested in the knowing
what the media has to say...bemoaning that knowledge is indeed power, but
the other ninety-two percent seem to be happy with the unknown.

Thus I am still free to write my opinion - to cast a vote as long as
I can identify myself...and yet what is done when another faction
of other worldly fanatics get miffed and decides to play god
saying that they have the right to declare who lives and dies?

This is politics as usual in this latest electoral season in the United State
of America as we choose just how fast we will sink into the quagmire of what
awaits us when we have the choice of two men to lead us, who are both
so equally out of touch with reality...at least that’s what I’ve heard and read.

I have leapt into the stream...and wonder just when will I drown?
But then the sun rises and a new day dawns and I have to think
that there is hope for the next generation - there can be peace,
enough food, shelter and clothing, acceptance for all? 

(c) JP/davh
Process notes: from a list of twenty words, to a scrawled declaration,
to what may pass for poetry?  Cast your vote.


http://wewritepoems.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/prompt-125-its-post-your-poems-day/