2016 Election
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The world watches as numbers trickle in.
Each state lights up in hues of red or blue.
Hope for a female president grows thin.
The man governed by hate now governs you.
Dedicated to the 2016 Presidential Election
People still wonder how could this happen.
How could the Apprentice leave a job of acting.
The most unqualified president ever?
Maybe we should understand the game better.
I, too, hear America singing
I am appalled by the dissonance piercing my ears
I am abandoned by this country I call home
I don’t want to hear their justifications or accusations
It was Wednesday, November 9th, the day after
Our heads throbbed with the reality
that Donald Trump won, and Hillary Clinton lost.
Our eyes spilled over, like an uncontrollable landslide,
blocking the road ahead.
You reach in
and depending on how you move
how you think
how you learned
studied,
watched.
you can pull your hand out with so many things.
The more I wait
The more I see
2016 wasn’t meant to be
There were two parties
Two different views
Lovely that we get to live here.
Grateful for the hard work of someone else, For Chance
Equality to open minded
Race to friendships
Money for change
2016 was change
More freedom
So I thought
November 9th, 2016 and my eyes restrain tears
I feel the wrath of hundreds of eyes locking onto mine as I walk down the hallways of my high school
Womanhood --
Coming up in me, about to burst like a hot spring.
When you're told, told all of the time that you can't --
That you can't shatter or break out of that "bell jar".
The power of the people
And money's cruel sword
Cuts in like a needle
As corrupt politicians fight to become our lords
With a party split
It burns itself apart
As leaders of green wit
This past year
I reflect that event
Where our new president-elect
Became Donald Trump.
Not only stunned hearts,
But shattered faith
To the country
I thought we could trust.
I scream
not only because
I am angry
not only because
I am afraid
I scream
because of my shame
my dying hope
for a world at peace.
It takes only one day
to destroy hope
“Women these days think they
Can do whatever they want
with their bodies-
That is false.”Said my community preacher:
“Women these days think they
Can do whatever they want
with their bodies-
That is false.”Said my community preacher:
“Women these days think they
Can do whatever they want
with their bodies-
That is false.”Said my community preacher:
I'm watching the two candidates on my television.
I am already having the vision.
Of our country becoming divided.
I wonder who my friends sided with.
Will it be him or her?
I surely don't know.
I remember at the start
Everybody prayed
Twenty sixteen please be better
They said and said and said
I remember at the start
We, the young
aged by hate,
torn by lonesome longing for days
hidden in future history,
Stalked by a past twisted and turned by beliefs and
banter... ugly.
We, the few
jaded and new,
I wonder how long we hold feud
To what is red and what is blue
Yet our eight legged branch can't walk
On a single file ant line to the booth
For the new insect order say to be behind the head
Bellowing mouths
Verbal missiles, horrendous crimes
Smiling posters, teeth real and artificial
Gaudy colors, Green, Blue and Red
Harry potters, Santa Clauses, Conjurers of
Paradise, of an Arcadian world
So much of you to see and hear-Too much; I'd rather not.Anything you say or doBecomes a topic that is "hot":
