political prognosis 2

what is the price of blood and grief?
when the effort to exhaust is all but brief.
when the men who point proclaim as chief,
when regrets come in the form of a thief!

what is the meaning of loss and pain?
when the heartbeats of souls are like a stain.
when the men rule have no shame,
when the reason nothing but gain!

what do we do when choice is no more?
when the thoughts of of nation become folk lore.
when the men who tirade become the de'cour,
when justice means no more than greed and war!

what has become of our oasis?
when our beuaty and splendor into stasis.
when the men we believe turn in disgeaces,
when under GOD becomes a political prognosis!


David Paul Hartman
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