Weekly Poetry Challenge four

Keep Hope Alive

Title Keep Hope Alive

In these dark and dangerous times
We find ourselves living in it
Is hard at times
To retain any sense of hope
For the future
Of our great country.


When the airways
Are filled with dark rumblings
Of retribution,
Civil War 2.0
The great divorce.

Instead of the United States
We have become
The disunited States.

The country
Seems to be splitting
Into hostile warring camps

Into two political tribes.
The blue and red tribes.


The two tribes
Do not get along
Not seeing the world
In the same way.

Lost in their virtual media bubbles
Their cyberspace prisons of the mind.

And in this dark and dangerous place
We live in
It is more important
Then anything else,

That we recover
The sense of hope
And optimism for the future.

And that we work together
To overcome
the despair fear and hatred,

Spread by the former president
Who delights in throwing gasoline
On the political fires.

Laughing like
an escaped banshee
In the chaos, he inspires.


Hard to keep hope alive
But we must do so

If we are going to remain
One country
The United States of America.

Instead of falling apart
Into the Disunited States
And become another failed
Democracy.