This is not a poem. It’s a confession.

[Doreen Peri]

Someone said we relinquished
our power for the promise of comfort
and security.

I never imagined
that what he said he’d do
equated with
comfort or security.

It’s a dystopian nightmare with masked
kidnappers, concentration camps,
and threats to citizens

even including our own military
which tells me things are going to get
much worse.

I’m scared to death.
I can’t sleep at night.
It’s too dark.

When I envisioned the
possibility of a civil war,
I thought it might be the
right wing citizens against
the left wing citizens.

Never in a million years
did I think it could be our own government
against those who call this home.
I’m shocked and paralyzed.

[sasha]

add to that anger, shame, & disillusionment

[saw]

republicans took a timorous step off the cliff that they will regret....throughout history it wasn't disobedience that led to downfalls like we are experiencing... it was always... Obedience.....they complied like yellow dogs

I wonder how much lower they can stoop, where is the bottom,...what will make constituents show up on their front porch ?

[Steve Plonk]

Hope and pray that the Democrats may win back the House.
To overcome the "beauty bill" passed by republican louse

[mnaz]

Who "deserves" to live here? I don't think the Gestapo approach will work (because a free society doesn't do that), but that approach seems to have a vague approval at this point (!) because the far right wants to get rid of "foreigners." (So America can be great again.)

[mnaz]

I'm bored with this shit. It's not going to work. What a step backwards.

[mnaz]

I'm beyond bored with it. Trump (in his first term actually said: "The country is closed.") Do we agree? Maybe we do.