The Lashing Out  

By Carol Cole

Is it the newly elected

That screams in our faces

A message of evil demise

Or the peoples choice.

The majority

Resting on laurels

Of fast food and illusions of specialness.

Is it the newly elected

That engenders social inequality

Or the unfulfilled palates

Of a dying America

Disillusioned with the

Haves and the Have nots.

Is it the newly elected

Pitting women against women

Through the great divide

Of the old rape adage

“what was she wearing” and

“what’s her sexual history”.

Is it the newly elected

Who promises to obliterate

The “trespassers”

No longer welcome to the melting pot

Of opportunities gone awry.

And remnants of exotic spices

Now a sea of abysmal stench

Where is the American Parade

School bands and war heroes

Marching in celebratory rhythm

And the galloping hooves

Of our great American past-

The apple pie

And “small town kid, does good”

The endless possibilities, now impossible.

Is there a refuge for millennia’s

Beyond tiny houses

And minimum wage jobs

Where competition for scarce resources

Doesn’t settle into never leaving home

And fulfilling Chairman Mau dreams

Of numbing us on electronics and pharmaceuticals.

Has America succumbed again/still

To bullies and slave owners

Supremacists and other separatists

Religious outrage at LGBTP.

Disposing of the mentally and physically indigent

Down a sieve, into quick sand

Out of sight

Out of mind

Out of touch

Out of kind.

Is the newly elected

The perpetrator

The resounding clang

Of the gavel of new justice

Sneering at the impassioned

With an ensnaring flashlight

Arm banding “bleeding heart” intellectuals.

Where runners run fast and far

While the blind folded masses

Single file complacently into shallow, mass graves

Too broken and vulnerable to live free.

Is the newly elected

Going to change the world

With a time machine back

To pre PTSD amygdala trauma

Or will humanity unite

Leaving dichotomy in the dust

With courageous, exemplary voices

of compassion and reason resonating

the solfeggio frequencies of DNA healing.