On Thursday, on a bit of whim, I composed the following and posted it on my Facebook author page. It seems to be proving one of my more popular posts, so I thought I’d also share it here…
amid the clamour and the jeering
unabashed electioneering
vote swinging, mud-flinging
fake news, opposing views
idolising, demonising
the polls and the trolls
delighted support or sarcastic retort
dreams crumpled, voters disgruntled
the derided and the undecided…
baffling choices, hate-filled voices
feeling betrayed or falsely portrayed
motives mistaken… hope reawakened?
I cannot tell which way we’ll turn;
what lessons (if any) we will learn
all the rejection and potential dejection
of this general election…
a course correction?
the future uncertain, I close the curtain
at the end of the day and continue to pray…
your kingdom come
Lucy Mills, June 8th 2017
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Thank you for also posting it to the open internet where everyone can read it! I especially love the playing with words in the third section: support-retort; crumpled-disgruntled; derided-undecided.
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🙂 Glad you like it!
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