Losing our Heads
Too many
place their trust in queens and kings
Or posturing,
self-promoting presidents.
But where’s
the difference? When to all intents
And
purposes, whether birth or ballot brings
Them to
throne or office, each for all the pomp
With or
without benefit of election
Become the
focus for misdirection,
Hoping none
see the trick by those who romp
Away with
the profits and disappear,
While the esteemed
leader of the nation
Receives the
expected adulation
From all
whose vision’s presently unclear.
But what meaning
for any head of state,
When the
spectacle fails to fascinate?
D. A.
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