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[title] => IF BUSH HAS TRULY WON
[time] => 2004-11-03 06:01:48
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[bodytext] => White House claims Bush victory President George W Bush has convincingly won the US election, the White House has said. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3976843.stm --O//-- It’s a bitter pill to swallow A bitter one indeed That we may have to go on With the blackest seed It means an even darker world Two enemies locked as one Leading ever downward Will we EVER see the sun? John Kerry was our true hope That we could unite again To once more know true joy On his sanity depend Now there may be only more trouble More bitterness and strife No closer union with the world Just more loss of life This I believe may be the bitterest pill The American people ever took Rejecting a path to honour Closing a chapter of the book So, it’s almost over. What's to happen now? What hope lies ahead? If this leader's at the prow? Might we have at long last A change in this man’s heart? To begin working WITH the world Not tearing it apart? To link ALL of the people Instead of just a few? Uniting the nation with one heart Is this POSSIBLE for him to do? If so he’ll need to listen And to decent law obey To lay down the ways of arrogance Demanding his own way He must take a more intelligent path No longer just the bull Connecting in truth, in honesty No longer act the fool Only then will he achieve respect And trust so vital in this day To form alliances that TRULY protect Rise up from feet of clay I wonder, can he do it? If a winner, he needs the chance to try I hope he doesn’t waste it And in the face of wisdom fly May your God give him understanding That there is not just one SIMPLE way That he must look beyond himself And to the world this day The world fears America And the man who heads it so It fears for its future Where arrogance does grow It fears a man small-minded Who seems determined just to strike At all the hope they hold dear To do just what he’d like That makes a worry It gnaws now at the heart What new callous behaviour Will he then begin to start? What new abuse? What wild and ruthless killing? What kind of incompetence? Is he capable and more than willing? These fears echo round And round and round the world As we see all hope come to nothing In fear and anxiety curled There remains just one glimmer One light in the growing dark That Bush may yet come to his senses And make a BETTER mark The war that he started Seems destined to go on How many more will be lost? Dear daughters and dear son? But there is one tiny light In which we all must hope That steadier voices Will provide wisdom now to cope Could lessons have been learnt? Have they seen clearly how they failed? Could it they’ll avoid these in future Where the world would be derailed? If Bush has truly won There is little hope for change No fresh start for the world A chance to rearrange Right now there will be only dismay But to this one crumb we'll look That the disaster of Iraq Will bring some minds to book That even Bush will surely see Just how badly it all went wrong That nothing like it can be done again And to start a wiser song The words of this wiser song Sing of connection and not of hate Of all working together Not one outside the gate Inclusion of statesmanship Of nobility to meet half way To reach out and truly touch Each and every working day No more ego-based arrogance No more economy with the truth A better message and a higher path A REAL inspiration to our youth Not to see through blood-red eyes Not to inspire an ugly hate Not to blind the face of justice And leave others to their fate In this time of darkness It’s not MORE darkness that we need Reign in the ugly dogs of war And the rhetoric on which they feed Draw America TOGETHER Reach out to the other half Don’t continue destructive policy Or at decent people laugh Recognise that your leadership Has no UNIVERSAL appeal Don’t narrowly talk for just one side Begin to THINK and FEEL For ALL the people who still hope For a return to a better day This is the challenge that lies ahead Rise ABOVE the darker way [comments] => 5 [counter] => 176 [topic] => 41 [informant] => steeleyes [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 5 [ratings] => 1 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => political )
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