A Poet Is A Tortured Soul.

A Poet Is A Tortured Soul.
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A poet is a tortured soul,

in the world at large

that often tarnishes his or her ideals.

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It forces one to bend words

that are usually of great beauty

into the ugliest of truths.

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Third trimester babies

forcefully expelled from wombs

because each infant faces

little chance at life....

or the mother herself

could die.

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I held my son

seconds after birth

not much different from those

who rot in tiny coffins.

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I cannot comprehend it all ending there.

I saw my own eternity in his blue eyes

gazing upward in curious awe.

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But I cannot question God

he does not answer

these tiny lips wrenched into O's

as months of nurturing become

medical waste.

burnt offerings to

the necessary tragedy

of life extinguished.

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And I cannot grasp the denial

of such a well off society as ours

refusing to grant health care

to "All" who are in need .......

simply because they are illegal immigrants??

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Our forefathers were all illegal immigrants

fleeing the persecution of their faiths,

their freedoms and the tyranny of oppression.

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How does anyone look into a three year old

innocent Mexican child's,

dark brown and beautiful eyes,

who is in desperate need of treatment

and say I'm sorry, we can't afford to help you.

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Ah, but we don't have to, we remain quite distanced

from their pain and eventual tragedies.

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And what about all of the inner city children

who cannot get a doctor's care,

Did not some of our same forefathers

drag the ancestors of these needy kids

over to America in chains enslaving them?

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Don't you think some health care

for their great, great, great, great grandchildren

would be a nice way to erase some of that travesty.

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And What Of War,

I always believed that I should

fight and even die for my country,

but that was before the false pretenses of

weapons of mass destruction,

no exit strategies, men rushed to war

without armor for them or their vehicles,

with troops maimed and killed as a result

and others left there for two, three, four terms,

In the wrong country, simply to hang one man

who was not part of the 9/11 horror.

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All this while the maggot pig who was guilty

continued to mock and send videos to America.

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Add in the torture, Haliburton, Blackwater,

and the truth that the war was really about

simply gaining a foothold in the Middle East

to protect oil interests.

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Suddenly my former patriotism is shredded

like the flesh of our soldiers

under the endless onslaught of

one I.E.D. after Another.

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4, 432 Men and thousands more maimed for life

for Iraq??

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While Bin Laden still masterminds

skirmishes all along the Pakistan border

and the bush administrations simply dumped

the whole badly mishandled mess

into Obama's lap unresolved.

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Then the tea baggers have the audacity

to constantly criticize Obama for any and all

of his actions or lack of action.

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HYPOCRISY Runs Rampant.

it is a fatal disease eroding the very fiber

of our country.

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Thus I have decided with a heavy heart...

Not my son,

he will never be sacrificed in some useless war,

destroyed in some vast extension of bushes insanity.

And I come from a family that has always been Marines.

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Yes I would like to write

of the rainbow luminescent

flashes of a hummingbird

savoring a Morning Glory's sweet nectar,

or the exquisite beauty found

just beneath her eyelids ascending

after a first kiss.

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But poets are a tortured lot,

whose muses are most often

sympathetic to the pain and woes

of the world in which we inhabit.

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And so I must paint more ugly,

and most likely half of those

reading this will not have reached

even this far.

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Because the truth is excrutiating

it destroys what folks would like to believe.

so they simply blame the next guy in office

and pardon the last.

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They mock the Noble Peace prize,

that he will truly be earning....... the hard way.


They paint him as a witchdoctor, a Hitler

a destroyer of America.

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They follow party lines and radio lunatics

spouting McCarthyism's....and

spewing lies that are easier to believe

than the actual facts of what the last eight years

has wrought in the souls of poets

and in the hearts of the masses........

a nation torn asunder.