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Poem – Repeal and Replace

repeal and replace

clarity with smog

kindness with clenched fists

governance with profit margins

bridges with barricades

empathy

with anarchy

repeal and replace

justice with leverage

the earth with scorched shards

the constitution with impulse

hope with dread

repeal and replace

democracy with dynasties

a free press with soldered muzzles

grace with a snarl

repeal and replace

handshakes

with a flick of a smirk

“..but he hasn’t got anything on!”

the boy in the crowd yelled

the emperor shivered

frost crackling his spine

they were right.

but pride, habit

hunger for the next applause

pushed him forward

and so he marched on

head high

as the as the noble ones

trudged behind

holding aloft the train

that wasn’t there at all

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Originally published by PEACEVOICE, peacevoice.info In at least three separate…