I Wonder How They’ll Change Her

I wonder how they’ll change her,

 I suppose we’ll have to see.

Do they pose a danger,

  To those who would be free?

Will evil boldly march,

 With flags and torches high?

Like stormers through the arch,

  To make the humble cry?

Will we begin to hate,

  The strangers in our midst?

If this becomes our fate,

  Will normalcy be blitzed?

Will good men cringe in fear,

   Of knocks upon the door?

And will we still hold dear,

  The sacred oaths we swore?

Will books we love be banned,

  Is Mickey Mouse too gay?

Will fear control this land,

  And what would Jesus say?

Will pickers be deported,

  Will rotting crops abound?

Will lies that aren’t reported,

  Ensure the Truth be drowned?

Will children cower in fear,

   Of angry men with guns?

Shall we shed a tear,

  For all those little ones?

Is this the ended trail,

  For those who did aspire?

 As hungry children wail,

    At furnaces on fire?

Will the booming of the thunder,

  With tentacles of steel,

Put us all asunder,

  Not caring how we feel?

Will the science be denied,

  As crippled children cry?

The hypothesis decried,

  No answer as to why.

Our homeland once so free,

  Has lost its dignity.

We strove for liberty,

  but it was not to be.

I wonder how they’ll change her,

  Would Founders be aghast?

Can it get much stranger?

  Has Freedom been surpassed?

LDT January 20, ‘25

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