Political Marionette

You Mr. Evil
You are a politician
You are a businessman
You conqueer the forest
You cut down the trees
You cause deforestation
From carcasses you make coins
You have cash everywhere
You count without numbers
You are a candidate
You contest for presidency
Do you think I would vote for you?
A monoster of greed is never elected.

Age has brought me to this place, left perchance
Parsing the ponderous of my grotesque remembrance
Yet, age shall not stop me from the task at hand
As the need of a midnight ride rests on our land

Oh, brothers and sisters, I plead you to hear
Of the incise of a nation born of deceiver’s fear
So heinous in its methods, constructed invisible
Political puppetry, our division unpreventable

A scheme devised of lies intent on separation
Creeps between our shores spreading its segregation
Constructed by wealth and greed, desire of control
If we choose not to stand, it costs us a most devastating toll

Unable to even imagine giving up our nations creed
I plead once more and ask, why must our babies bleed?
When did we accept hate as an acceptable reaction?
Clothed in false morality, sure to pay for our distraction

Will you join me in this fight, will you do what you know is right?
Arm yourself with the truth, the proper target in your sight
The enemy isn’t homosexuality or a fight for a marriage right
Not red or blue, black or white, won’t bring you harm in the night

Our enemies I dare to say wear suits brought of our sweat
Consume the finest wine and food, warriors without regret
So concealed is their plot we perceive them as naught
Uncertainty and apathy devours all that we were taught

The battle is upon us, the call to seek the truth, stand the ground
To recognize the lies and rhetoric and by it not be bound
We have the strongest weapons, knowledge, truth, and love
The believers of us, protected by a shield of faith, have God above

I cringe at what these meddling fools have done to our democracy
Manipulating tradition and morality to create their own theocracy
To steal our freedom, discarding our civil rights, they could not wait
To disregard laws and destroy the wall of separation of church and state
They create diversions, needless issues upon which everyone brews
Designed to make political puppets that are controlled by nightly news
Passage of the Patriot Act, what eloquent names are used
Disagree with them and it will be of treason that you are accused

They say they believe in privacy as they build a national database
They know who you are, where you are, and when you leave a place
Big brother is here in the name of security, void of public scrutiny
It steals our freedom, eliminates our privacy without accountability

My heart aches as I envision what the future holds for our children
The failure of a democracy, so corrupted, we cared not to defend
The melting pot of America, the original dream, in postmortem
All of this sounding so extreme, yet fearful of not sounding the alarm

My angst compelling me to give this last battle cry, my lantern from the shore
Our enemies’ camouflage now destroyed, shown only as words we can’t ignore
Discrimination, coercion, division, intolerance, and hate to name a few
Easily extinguished by the single act of one, it all comes down to you.

The armageddon has begun.