The Rise, By Brianrrs37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet On FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter)

That has been said of history
To forget is to repeat misery
Beer Hall Putsch treachery

Scapegoat and vilify
Conspiracy theories
Are all lies

Night of long knives
Purging, democracy dies
Hear the innocent cries

Riefenstahl made a messiah
Goebbels accuse the other
Never to give them trials

Niemoller warned of firsts
The domino dam will burst
Despot everyone’s cursed

Night of broken glass
Lives today not in the past
The victims will be vast

Hispanics fleeing the sunshine state
LGBTQ face an unknown fate
Book bans a marquee trait

Lost their body autonomy
Forced birth is tyranny
Repeat not this history

Vodka, steaks, airlines
University, hotels, casinos
The failed bully knows

The indictment list grows
He claims they’re after you
He knows that isn’t true

The talk is all the same
When the fearful buy his game
Fascism on the rise,

Is where democracy always dies.
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