Escape

With nowhere to turn back to the wall,
There's been better days seen over all.
Taken by the hand lead to a slaughter,
Told to sit on down and not say a word.

What's said is twisted and turned around,
Make words what they want them to hear.
A future filled only with broken promises,
And no mending of those made in the past.

Say the words which are true and truth,
Yours come from an imagination of lies.
The mouth speaks from deniers and liars,
What politician speaks for our desirers.

Who'll speak truth and won’t back down,
None, all are afraid of their own demise.
Dead also is any kind of compromise,
All that anyone ever does is just criticize.

So, headlong and split into tribal sides,
Each repelling what the other believes.
Look for a light at the end of the tunnel,
It grows further with each matched step.

To wrest control in free and fair elections,
Only to destroy a system from the inside.
Stand in the way of every denier and liar,
Our republic is fine as it always has been.

Or stand be one and escape into madness.