Lost Light, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

I can’t really laugh anymore
There doesn’t seem a reason to be
I can’t really talk anymore
It’s all been drained out of me

I’ve seen what a snake you are
That is all you will ever be
You succeed selling your lies
Excel at conning society

Slick peddling serpent’s oil
Shrill of a piercing scream
Losing my grip of hope
Lost in this nightmare dream

I can’t really laugh anymore
There doesn’t seem a reason to be
I can’t really talk anymore
It’s all been drained out of me

Eyes of millions blind
Out of this cult they cant find
Jim Jones comes to mind
It takes a certain kind

To run to run off the precipice
Throw America into an abyss
To no depth they wont sink
Our democracy on the brink

This malignant meteor about to strike
Plunge the nation into dark of night
They’ve taken away women’s rights
Humanity’s frightful blight

I can’t really laugh anymore
There doesn’t seem a reason to be
I can’t really talk anymore
It’s all been drained out of me

It is the boiling of the sea
It is the flames of raging hate
Vengeful petulant child
Autocracy on his slate

The day is coming near
The land of growing fear
His feckless voice I always hear
The solution must be clear

I can’t really ignore anymore
There doesn’t seem a reason to be
Complacency is certain doom
Obliterate his grip on thee

You cannot sit this out
No matter how tired you are
You have to fight this fraud
It’s coming down to the wire

Don’t flee from this needed fight
Don’t turn and look away
Don’t let the bully win
He won’t get his way