Horror

Looking around, I watch with growing

Horror, sadness, and utter dismay

As many states start looking more

Like Nazi Germany every day.

 

Laws to penalize doctors for trying

To help others are spreading fear

And horrible insecurities

Among the health professionals here.

 

Laws pitting people against

One another are being made.

Groups are being targeted

As scapegoats in what is a vicious crusade.

 

Library books are being banned

Because of people's misguided views.

Laws are being made to prevent

People from having the right to choose.

 

We also have our "brown shirts"--

Mobs of thugs who terrorize

Others whom--for bigoted reasons--

The cruel, extremist thugs despise.

 

SOME states want to give their doctors

The right to refuse treatment to those

Whose sexual orientation those very

Doctors for asinine reasons oppose.

 

Autocrats in other countries

By many people are honored and praised,

And when the autocrats stomp on rights,

The autocrat-lovers aren't even fazed.

 

States are changing history with

Revisionist texts that alter the truth,

Using a silly, outlandish excuse

That doing so protects our youth.

 

ALL we need now is an autocrat

Wannabe like Trump in power,

And what we know as democracy

Will sadly see its final hour.

 

-by Bob B (6-16-23)