11.02.2004

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Escaping America’s optimism,
I find myself bemused.
No thought for my future,
for the future is no more.
We the people?
We the people?
We the people
have been forgotten
as we lurch towards
non-existent dreams.
Sadly, I find solace
that I am not alone,
but the comfort,
like our freedoms,
is fleeting.

Help! I cry out,
my pleas are thrown
to the pyre and
quickly forgotten.
Again—Help!
it does no good.
I get down on my knees
and pray to the heavens,
but the heavens
now serve another.

We have been forsaken
by all that we have
known as sacred.
Our country;
our planet;
our heavens
have been decimated
to memories
and hellfire.

And death shall
have no dominion
in a world in which
fear and disarray
reign with the same
absolute power that
freedom and liberty once held..
We cannot hold
allegiance to trepidation
and tyranny.

Revolt!

Defeat.

Efforts are refuted;
the puppet prevails
in a battle against
what was once
his source of power:
We the people.