For my country the Philippines, as we face the next election.
Vile Corruption!
You're so entrenched
In executive tendrils
Your tentacles tied Justice
And strangled Freedom so-
Let my people go!
Callous Greed!
You bleed my country dry
Of Her people's wages
And make them slaves
To fill your coffers!
You think we do not know?
Let my people go!
Plastic Religion!
Your hypocrisy blinds,
Deceive my countrymen
With your lifeless images
Empty rites and traditions,
Falsehood in robes!
Evil's gone so low-
Let my people go!
Your chains have bled
Our wrists, our lips
But this pen writes
They will not die
In silence cowered
Nor fear cold bars
Of prison's walls-
My ink will flow
To let my people go!
Like that swain-flu the corrupted politics are expanding to cover the planet. That scourge, using to be just on a few far away and forgotten places, are now with us, like gangrene.
Wow, Cynthia! I'm not much into poetry, other than every now and then some words come to me, but this is strong! Very strongly worded and exceedingly well written. Your point certainly does come across.
Mark Lichterman
This is a political treatise that deals with the China issue from a completely new perspective. Disparaging as he may sound, from page to page, toward "the old system" and the Communist Party's various wiles, the author demonstrates his mysteriously
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Love, Connie
(((HUGS))) and much love from America~
As always, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :(
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milton