Someday America will come crawling
to us, bleeding democracy out of her center,
Know that we can’t educate her out of the mess.
It is only love that lasts,
in all the forms an infinite mind can imagine.

Your institutions will fail, and they will fall.
You will wonder how we learned to maintain
such stoicism while watching our mothers
die.We have been mourning this whole time.
We have been vying to protect the rights
of our daughters, you gave away.

Someday the imagined monster you fear,
won’t be a distorted face behind a podium
of empty promises,
She will be right there. A cancer.
The calloused violence inside you.

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@TheHardWayPoems (IG)