Writing these words
A flogged dead horse
Fills my mind.
How easy
To hate someone
Who’s different.
Say this
Having been targeted
For such grotesque behaviour
From total strangers.
Naively thought
President Trump would grow
Into the statesman
We needs.
Pushing aside
His angry pettiness
For the greater good.
Instead
Doubled down
Creating a climate
Of hostility and paranoia.
Empowering those
Who share his negative
Violent agenda.
As my American cousins
Honour those men
And women.
Who paid
The highest price
One can
For their country
In foreign wars:
Their lives.
On this
Memorial Day.
Each tear shed
Thanks given
For your sacrifice.
Without this
My family and others
Wouldn’t be here.
Therisa © 2019
Author’s note: Yes, I do have cousins, who are American citizens.
During the final months of WWII, American and Canadian troops helped liberate The Nederlands, from Nazi occupation. Sadly, not all of these men were able to return home, to their families. Unlike the United States, Canada honours all of our war dead, on Remembrance Day, November 11th, at 11 am. With two minutes of silence.
To all American veterans, please accept this cyber-hug. I know, that there is a huge difference, between the political administration and the troops, who service to defend the United States constitution.
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