Jan 6th, 2021

We the people,

In the four years past

Watched our world unravel;

Our allies alienated,

Our goodwill destroyed,

Our foes strengthened,

Our country divided.

Set upon one another by words and deeds;

Supremacism, racism and bigotry 

Fed and encouraged.

Letting the kind of ugliness appear,

As not seen before. 

 

 

We the people, 

Were told to stay at home.

Our travel restricted,

Gatherings and social events limited,

We were isolated and quarantined.

A virulent disease stalked our land,

Which, absent of any effective leadership,

Spread easily and exponentially 

And in doing so,

Snuffed out the candle of life for many.

 

 

We the people,

We were told not to worry.

Told that the disease was under control. 

The very set of precautions that were recommended,

Were politicized and ridiculed.

Confusing the many among us.

And causing the spread of misinformation. 

And unwittingly causing even more of us

To succumb to its deathly grip. 

 

 

We the people,

Mostly  patient and of a trusting kind,

Believers of justice, goodness, decency

And fairness above all.

The very Shining beacon of democracy 

And champion of liberty and freedom 

For all mankind.

We watched unbelieving

As our world fell to pieces. 

 

 

We the people, 

Knew the time had come

The 2020 election was the time to say “Enough is enough”.

To take back and set things right, 

To heal and repair our fragile union. 

Rarely, in the annals of our nation’s history,

Has any election ,

Been so starkly significant,

The very soul and the future of our nation,

Was at stake. 

 

 

We the people,

Knowing what had elapsed,

Turned out in record numbers. 

We waited patiently to exercise,

Our foremost civic duty,

Exercise our right to vote.

And elect those each of us thought fit

To represent us and make our voices heard.

Make the will of the people,

And what we stood for heard,

Across our nation and

The rest of the world. 

 

 

We the people,

Regardless of political orientation,

Resisted every effort,

To discredit, overturn, disenfranchise

Our legitimately elected representatives

And the recipient of our votes. 

Many attempts were made,

Objections were heard in halls of justice

All the way to the Highest court of the land

The Supreme Court.

And in each case bar one, overturned

Signaling the elections were free and fair. 

 

 

We the people,

Were yet to face our final ignominy!

As the instigators and twisters of information,

Having exhausted all legitimate avenues,

Called upon their misguided followers 

And goaded them to insurrection in

Our nation’s capital.

Down Pennsylvania Avenue they came,

To storm our Capitol 

The citadel of democracy. 

With chaos and disruption in mind,

A last ditch attempt by those hooligans,

To overturn the election. 

 

 

We the people, 

Persevered and stood resolute.

Our valiant warriors,

The Capitol police and other law enforcement officers,

Rushed to protect and restore law and order.

And allow the will of the people to be heard,

And the process of electing to proceed, 

And the election decided,

In favor of the rightfully elected. 

 

 

We the people,

At the end of this momentous day,

Are thankful and grateful that,

The Constitution of the United States of America, 

(Which begins with those very same words,)

And the country that it represents,

Has prevailed. 

And the Shining City on the hill,

And what it means to all of us,

Has been restored,

By the will of the people,

To the people of America. 

 

 

Good night America, Good night sweet land!

May God Bless this land.

 

This poem is about: 
My country
Our world

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