Reflecting on Political History

Reading history

has taught me to see

little change in mankind

but for technology

Politics in any era

country or people

repeat similar promises

of protecting their sheeple

 

But they make secret deals

the public won’t see

and pad their own coffers

lacking responsibility

 

The public is told

what they want to hear

while politicians

bend to personal ears

 

Truth convoluted

media to hound

promote voices in votes

with promises not sound

 

The rich become richer

as power corrupts

the bullying precedent

overtakes much

 

And after elections

do mass voices count

are the pretty promises

replaced by doubt?

 

Because in the end

when following through

on what was promised

to what comes true

 

Deceived by words

questions arise

who ends up paying

for all this demise?

 

--Sasha Wolfe

The Yearning to go Home

My heart yearns to go home

but there’s no home left there

family is gone, moved

landscape changed

 

My gut tightens

with the yearning

to walk the old trails

to be out in nature

 

To remember

those times of feeling safe

to let the woods give comfort

to my sorrowed heart

 

But it is no more

no home, no old trails

paths changed

the property unrecognizable

 

Aloneness eats at my soul

I feel I have no roots

no connections

no sense of belonging

 

I’m left floundering

like the end of a rope

flopping in the wind

with nothing to tie it to

 

There’s no old home

to return to.

 

--Sasha Wolfe