Autopsy of the American Soul
Death came quickly
hard to know what killed it
there were so many indicators
so many things to consider
but we wouldn’t be satisfied
couldn’t be assured or felt safe
until we knew
what killed the American soul
death came quickly enough
that there could have been time
to save some of the organs
give them to a new country
in order for the heart to
keep beating; the lungs to
continue breathing
but no one wanted them;
too tainted they said
too much poison had gotten
into the circulatory system
and ruined them all
oh, there were a few
who would have taken
parts of the corpse if they
could have had the soul
but there was no saving it
for
once the air of democracy
was replaced with the
carbon dioxide of fascism
the soul died of suffocation.
once the access to sunlight
was denied inside the cages
the soul had no warming
place to go and died
of despair.
once the life-giving rain
of truth was replaced
with alternative facts, the
soul drowned in a
flash flood of lies
and once the soul of America
no longer had the constitution
to keep going, it just ceased
to live; didn’t take long
wasn’t really too hard,
just a breath and it was gone.
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