As I Shout in the Streets

I no longer know what matters to such American

people. Although if I follow their leader, money

seems to be an answer. I read about the sans-gun

service of once-US Poet Laureate Frost. Does freedom

fighting of that sort count? Or is it only the power

of military and business that is worthy of praise? ‘God

bless America’ sounds hollow when your god

is only invoked to defend those Americans

wielding wealthy, masculine, white Christian power.

You threaten to sue with check-books of money,

declaring that your rights demand denied freedom

for the Other—and if that fails, you have your gun.

You angrily yell: ‘Keep your hands off our guns,

and keep your political correctness off our God!’

You claim this government is killing religious freedom.

But Christian liberty is not religious liberty; America’s

separation of Church and State proven a lie. Money

will now be our ruler—the divine right to power.

The rally ‘Vote for Life!’ becomes ‘Vote for Power!’,

as the NRA threatens, ‘Vote to Keep Your Guns!’

Once again we are reminded of the money

chiselled for worship of a lifeless, foreign god.

This is the god for which platforms of ‘Americans

First’ are throwing aware their coveted freedom.

Your ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ pursuit of freedom

is revealed to be a desperate grab for power.

You are willing to distort the elusive ‘American

Dream’; replacing and reifying it with rights to guns,

rights to give lip-service to only the Christian god,

and rights to the pursuit of money, money, money.

You say intelligence is success, measured by money.

You claim that to maintain our fought-for freedom

requires labelling and barring those who worship Allah.

You have compromised Light in order to possess power.

Driven by fear of Other, you cradle your precious guns.

Is it only You who gets to define what is Great America?

Lesson one: If I make money it will bring me power.

Lesson two: Freedom is defended by wielding a gun.

My plea: Dear God, I don’t want to be this American.