Our Season of Discontent
Do you, like me, feel their pain, empathize with the anguish felt by families fleeing tyranny, seeking better futures, whose lives have been suddenly altered, upended, their destinies violently and undeservedly rearranged?
An intolerant administration willfully ignores traditional rules of law, robbing souls of their hopes for fulfillment, interrupting their children's universe, toying with their innocent, already precarious lives. Our democracy has flailed over and over again, perhaps reached a peak in a growth spurt with the election of a black man as president in 2008. Now, it appears all gained is spiraling down the drain. Surely, when so many suffer, tis the season of our deepest discontent.
Last remnants of hate
Bleed from our democracy
Redemption awaits.
It finally did some wonders for the generation. It grew with maturity but there were trying times.
ReplyDeleteHank
The R-III allusion at the beginning is perfect. Glad you joined in!
ReplyDeleteNice description of a season of discontent with precarious innocent lives.
ReplyDeleteI wonder too... maybe for me it's less the laws and rules than the rhetoric... people infesting us, criminals and rapists... when you vilify humans like this from the highest position we are playing with fire.
ReplyDeleteYes, that needed to be included into the haibun.Thanks, Bjorn.
DeleteThis is getting worse week after week, with hate growing aggressively, the new normal? ~ I hope that the USA will elect "better" officials in the upcoming elections ~
ReplyDeleteI like your description of remnants of hate bleeding.
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