The State of Our Nation...

The following piece I wrote during our current Presidents first term. This was originally written as a Spoken Word piece. I know I am often speaking about Love and Higher Vibrations on this Blog... But as I have often shared, we must acknowledge the Shadow. Not to live in it, but to bring it to light. there are some dark corners pointed out in this. But every once in a while we have to give our anger a voice. Not to create Chaos. But to release energy so that we can find clarity once again. Give yourself permission to release the Shadow within you about what is happening in this world. Then, find your center, tap into your heart and Bless this world through your Voice and your Art. Blessings, Love & Light. "What you’re about to hear isn’t polished politics or pretty promises.

It’s the truth I see when I look at our streets, our leaders, and our people.

It’s raw, it’s heavy, and it’s ours.

This is… the state of our Nation. The state of our Nation

as we spiral out of status…

The world watches helplessly,

self-implosion upon us.

No one in DC

speaks with responsibility for honesty.

Integrity only lives on

in our past history.

People starving to make ends meet

while we shout, honor veterans

as they’re homeless on the street.

Business is booming

for those living at the top

while most struggle two jobs

just to put a chicken in the crock.

What the fuck.

Why now?

So many people asking,

heads spinning,

watching Congress fumble

as everything we stood for

collapses and crumbles.

Our jobs, our education,

our health care and science.

Global warming is real.

Check the polar bears.

Ask a seal.

WTF, one percent

you who pull the strings,

you who screw us at every turn.

Four hundred ninety-two billionaires

do nothing but watch

as our cities burn.

Old men talking without a clue,

telling women to subjugate their minds

for ceilings made of glass.

And just be okay with it

when they pass by

and grab your ass.

The men on the right say,

forget decorum.

“Rape victims should make the best of a bad situation,”

states Senator Rick Santorum.

Our nation’s children starving in the streets,

while those who yell Pro-Life

wave dead baby signs on corners.

Another child six feet down

where are the pro-lifers,

not joining the mourners?

Speaker Hastert does fifteen months

for molesting his trusting students,

as the court systems waffle.

A mother on trial,

facing thirty years

for saving her child’s life

with THC

they say is unlawful.

We see a hardworking father

two jobs, a family of six

deported

for showing up to pay his traffic tickets.

A mother, a teacher,

raising her kids without a father there.

Seeing him on the weekends

just over the border.

Wall off our borders.

Kick them all out.

The drones of the Bible Belt

wave Confederate flags and shout.

Live in fear of the Black, Brown, and Red.

I’m told they’re coming for your family,

your life,

and you.

To distract you from poisoned water,

chemtrails, GMO’s,

and attacks on the Dakota Sioux.

Muslims care not for this Christian land.

Trump’s finger on the button,

playing missile command.

Grown white men, rifles on their backs,

so afraid

because of the parades,

of the evil of gays.

Prominent leaders busted in bathrooms,

fishing for a blow,

while a transgender teen

is beaten for show.

Shun those who show us ourselves,

our shadows, our perversions

that we each bury so well.

And make sure you don’t let your neighbor know

if you’re lesbian or bi,

or just like Matthew Shepard

you might be left to die.

The truth of our nation

is fear and hate

from those whose minds chide the true Divine.

Pride is deceitful,

intoxicating,

atrocity-breeding.

The empire of America

is coming to an end.

We see it happening

at least those that keep reading.

Pride arrives before the fall,

whether found in a person,

a race,

or a nation.

We lost the idea

of what it meant to have grace.

Right here.

Right now.

This is the state of our Nation. There I said it I let go of the strife Let us Love this Nation, our Nation, Back to Life!"