I’m a self-starting engine
But I’m running on empty
Gasping for some fumes
Solitary without a choice
Sentenced to house arrest
Isolated with no helping hand
With a sociopath in charge
Incompetence is his recipe
Brewing malignant neglect
Extended to those suffering
With greed the sole ingredient
Thin the herd-rule the world
I postulate that I still can believe
Thought it would be easy
to be in charge of all this
world.
It’s not easy to be human,
not easy to bracket your
agenda, to act in humility
when the world offers you
power and goods.
But I’ve seen it done, not
so long ago, for eight years.
Enough saber-rattling, enough
pushing and shoving, enough
supremacy talk.
It’s time to smarten up.
Time to approach this job
with eyes to both sides
of the aisle, and eyes to what
all of us offer.
Do your work wisely and well.