Politics

right or left, who's to say 

sometimes in between,
this way or that it seems
nothing ever changes...
re-elections, bribes, and
increasing riches is what
it is all about - we mere
mortals who have endured
for years, know what it is
all about...  kings and queens
have come and gone,
dukes and prices too,
freedom bears the cross of
death, zooming our lack
of knowledge daily...
children see and imitate
so it perpetuates and no
one sees and end in sight,
without a terminal illness,
laughing dignitaries' bleed
us dry with their rhetoric,
we give them the keys to
our treasures and wives make
them bread and cheese for
their domestic journeys...
we the people, no longer see
no longer care and no longer
weep of the days behind us.

September 25, 2024