In The Silence
Political headlines
The same ol’ shit
Not a day passes
Without anger
Somehow
The gods of war
The gods of pestilence
The gods of media
Have destroyed our
Inner peace as each
Part each peace of
Our soul fades away
And dies a little bit
As the darkness
Overshadows our
Faith
Our country tis
Of thee sweet
Land of liberty
Let freedom ring
But the world
All changed
One day when
We were at work
Or taking care of
Our children or
Taking the dog
For a walk
We didn’t
See it coming
We didn’t believe
That such things
Could ever happen
Here.
And just like
Germany just like
God we turned our
Backs and walked
Away
Sick
In the silence
Hateful of our
Own cowardice
Our own useless voices
Now too late to
Stop the darkness
Now
So
In years to come
Remember this
This time this
America this
Moment
That moment
When you said
Nothing did
Nothing & ran
Away from it all
Like a frightened
Child
Who doesn’t
Remember
His own home
Or where he belongs
Anymore
#secondcivilwarletters #trump #independenceday #ignoringthetruth #rmengelhardt
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R.M. Engelhardt is a poet, writer and author who over the last two decades has published over 16 books of poetry including "Nod" "Logos" "Alchemy" & "The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization Albany Poets & the Annual Poetry Celebration The Albany Word Fest he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings Vox, Propaganda, Listen & currently is creating a new resurrection of one of the area's most well known open mics for poetry and spoken word THE SCHOOL OF NIGHT in Troy, NY held on the last Wednesday evening of each month at the incredible nightclub/speak easy bar THE BERLIN IN TROY NY. His writing has also been published by many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others.
Look for his books "WHERE THE PEOPLE'S VISION PERISHES 2020" "DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & "COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS" ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) " DarkLands" 2019 & "Where There Is No Vision" 2020 and his new books, "WE RISE LIKE SMOKE" (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) all available on Amazon.com
He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press DeadMansPressInk.
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