Election Season

Every day that passes is
like walking through
a trough of quick dry cement.
At first we think we can
pass through it at first
we think we can really
do it as each step we
try to take with it envisioning
the best that we can
make with it but the further
we plod we are more and
more stuck in it seeing
the promise dry up we instead
say the fuck with it
instead
we see dread
our dreams
hanging by a thread
against an overwhelming
current we desperately
tread trying to serve
our children daily bread enabling
their appetite for achievement to
be fed hoping light will
cast upon the tunnel ahead
to end our disappointment in what
the politician said that the
good is on the way and the
bad can now be shed while the
will of the voters was left for
dead on the congressional floor in
a puddle of red striving stronger for
recovery we have sweat we
have bled we must keep what is
good and right from nodding
off to bed.

~Miguel

What A (Campaign) Trail!

Did we know
we were forging
this mess of
a direction toward
the mess that has
become this next
election as everyone
of them thinks they are
God’s handmade
perfection as they all
cop an attitude of blatant
deflection toward the rising
platitude of violent insurrection
that has soiled the face of
our national complexion
each accusation finding no real
detection while inside they all
carry real neglection toward
real issues such as the ongoing
subjection of the ever rising
cost of a life saving
injection blaming all problems
on those making the defection
to our country seeking its
employment its shelter and
affection while none of
them has a means of
real correction to the problems
to which We The People
serve up objection
to our pleas we
add a PLEASE only
receiving rejection
while they hide behind their
pride and their wallet’s
protection.

~Miguel

They Win We Lose

And so we elect
we elect
to reject
we elect
to disconnect
we elect
which one
showed more
disrespect.

Hardly do we
hear that the
winner will
direct
an approach
to the issues they
really need to dissect
instead letting time
simply ride to neglect
the many whose
rights they should
be out to
protect
the many whom
their lack of direction
will affect.

~Miguel