America the Dazed

America the Dazed by Ava Hackler

Just another midnight poem referencing American politics...

A precious child put on the spectrum
Laughed at and mocked
left with no one that gets them
Trying to make a change in this place
bashed and berated for the looks on her face

Grieving parents scream
begging for hope
while Mr. President tweets about how gun violence is a hoax
classmates watch as blood spills from a body
Conservatives don't care because guns are their hobby
but yes, Democrats are horribly wrong too
they cannot take the rights that the people are due
all I ask is that we all be aware
selling some guns is not safe and not fair

Our governor posted about "true Christianity"
but my mental illness isn't insanity
if you choose to talk about depression and Christ
then go read your bible
that would be nice.
Do you not know of David and Elijah
What about Job Moses or Jeremiah
Even Jesus was "aquatinted with grief"
Your lies, Mr. Governor, are becoming a motif

The rights of women
what a bore
as long as your wife's locked safe in your doors
you don't know what it feels like to sit and be shamed
after all, your body count buys your fame
"what were you wearing"
"what did you say"
None of those questions should come into play
when you laugh in our faces for being scared
You're blind to the fact that rape is not rare

We wake up daily and make a choice
some choose to love others and to give them a voice
who am I to tell you your heart doesn't beat
or that the land of opportunity isn't yours to see
our country was built off of so many others
but we refuse to accept because we have different mothers
No hearts have been changed by your horrible rage
Why don't we throw YOU in a cage?
Treat you like scum and leave you to rot
You say you give glory to God but how is is that glory? It is not

how do you decide a mothers right
we toss and we turn and we rage and we fight
illness is painful scary and grave
what if she has no baby to save?
a clinic does more than murder a kid
why shame a girl, you don't know what she did
it may not be her fault even if it's a sin
that baby could be suffering way worse within
there's other good ways to show them our God
but your sign sending them to hell is definitely not
her decision will not change if you're yelling whats right
it will change when kindness is the root of your fight
it's something that one day she'll have to answer to
but last time I checked you aren't God, are you?

Homosexuality is a sin?
So is your judgment seeding within
They see love in a different way?
because we refuse to put God's love on display
Your argument is always "they have a heartbeat"
until you and a lost sinner meet,
then you tear them apart just like the others you hate
how is one Murder but the other just fate?

Times have changed, that's just the truth
look outside it'll give you the proof
we have evils to fight and evils to fear
but you'll never learn, you don't open your ears

You like to say that my thoughts are insane
but when did I let you into my brain?
My thought process is fair and kind
I speak the truth that's on my mind
I'll choose my president for person not party
Because being divided helps nobody

I do not want your precious guns
or your taxes raised
I do not want your filthy comebacks saying I'm dazed
I have respect for my country but I am not proud
I can not support accusations that have no account
I will bring evidence against any unjust
I play on their field but I don't give my trust