The Death Of Love...at the border (poetry and art)

"The Death Of Love" and "Faces" are two poems I wrote about what I saw happening. I was distraught over the program of exporting endless war and endless misery.  The horror of this policy goes beyond reason.  Years ago I wrote a poem titled "The Warlords" This video on the topic of the attempted coup against FDR appears to answer the question asked in the The Warlords. It may also explain the Trump Administrations fear of immigrants. I find myself thinking: "Can Trump's malicious, divisive nationalism cause the kind of behavior seen in the video"?

The Warlords

After reading Du Fu, “Advent of Spring”

The warriors have ruled

from time immemorial.

They have come and gone and come again

time after time:

nations, princes, and kings one after another

building on the pile of corpses

stacked beneath their feet.

None have served the people honestly.

Who has given them control?

Where have they come from?

Will they ever leave us alone

to raise our families

and die in our own beds

with our children by our side?

Their grip is on our neck

and they force us

to our grave

in their search for

others to plunder.

They cannot live without war;

it is their meat and drink

as ours is the hearth

and the embrace of our lovers.

They declare those who cry for

peace and complain of war

‘enemies of the state’

and seek to silence them

while we the people are victims

of their lust

and made to pay for their

desires to be satisfied.

Will they ever leave us alone

to raise our families

and die in our own beds

with our children by our side?

Enjoy the poems in the videos below

It only takes a generation

for politicians with eyes for war

to bring forgetfulness upon the people

who wanted war no more.

I made the poster, below, yesterday about what I see happening presently. Denying immigration, especially, at this time a year is a slap in the face to American history by this Administration. Instead of sending troops, what should have been done was to have sent personnel to process the refugees and give then a Thanksgiving welcome. With that in mind it only makes sense that Thanksgiving be cancelled this year.

  

Rights are meant to be used the way you use muscles.  

You need to use your rights everyday or run the risk of losing them.  

If you don't use your muscles they atrophy.

Rights are your Civil Rights muscles.

Use-em!!!!

(C) David H. Roche