A Brief Analysis of the 2020 US Elections

To hope is to do something utterly stupid.
The world, the people upon it, don't change.
The poor will not be clothed or fed.
The refugee won't find a home. The sick
Won't be insured and treated. Power,
With its iron threads, knits gray heads
In the office towers with those in
The councils' chambers, with those
Dressed in black with gavels, with those
Chasing, shooting dead, the ones who
Power's thread ends prick. The dead
Don't rise, and those afflicted lack
The means and will to bend the threads
Of power back upon the ones who hold
Them. This we know, and, therefore,
Should have long since learned
That hoping is a stupid thing to do.



Poetry by Lawrence Beck The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2020-11-04 at 13:50

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