A false rumour
That's exist
Just beyond our grasp.
Where truths
Are stories
We don't want to
See or hear.
Lies become reality
We face
On a daily basis
In our lives.
Tweets and other means
President Trump spins
His gossamer web
Of half truths
And other explanations.
Justification
For his inhumane actions
In treating those
Seeking a better future
With slavery-like holding pens
Their reward.
Is the inscription
On the Statue of Liberty’s base
An outright lie
For the past 130 years?
Destroying the American mythos
Of the United States
Being a welcoming land
To the poor and desperate
Seeking refuge
From oppression.
Trump’s leadership
Open displayed tyranny
Of a third world dictatorship
With the blessings and trappings
Of a first world democracy
In the public view.
Marking his presidency
As the darkest years
Since World War II
For disregarding human rights
By future historians.
Forever tainting
The sacred ideals
We hold forth
In our description
Of liberty.
Therisa © 2018
Author’s note: Written for this week’s writing prompt of Lady Liberty, at Poets United.
