"what's at stake"

lies spun about economic indicators
won't pay off your medical bills
or decrease corporate welfare.

despite boundless optimism,
lost jobs don't replace themselves.
'cause election day is nigh

we need to get real, people.
it's not the war on terror: it's your
government that's the issue.

can it protect your freedom
with the Patriot Act? can
it save you by cultivating fear?

little time between work and
picking up the kids to read
the newspaper or voter's guide

but the clock ticks and tocks
toward a reckoning we visit on
the world ignorantly, so stop

look and listen closely, breathe
deeply, and remember the God you
worship created all the universe

not just your piddling country.
don't reduce God to the borders
of your fear-stifled imagination.

It's a start people... At least I'm writing again...

"the home front"

sans beard and turban you might
miss him, American terrorist, extremist

(sometimes Veteran) draped in flags
of good ol' days and good ol' boys

bent on bombing past and present
into a future no God promised