Debt to Regret

The 'bail out'...
Or the economic stimulus.
With hopes a 'recovery package'...
Will return a society to greed in bliss.
Whatever term this madness is given.
To legitimize blatant crooks.
It appears rather dim!
To those conscious looking in.
What is being corrected?
How and by whom?
And when?

The same ones who analyze,
Their failures by disguising them...
With less traumatized attention given.

And some are quick to say,
It is democratic theft...
That is draped in masquerade.
To take trillions of dollars...
To minimize a bottomless debt to regret!
By the use of deceit.
And familiar betrayals...
A society nourishes as a reality to keep.

But no one seems to encourage...
The escalating of the investigating,
Stimulating devastation done...
By the acts of treason of some 'chosen' ones.
Or call murder...
Republican pacts!
That distorted all reason.
Little is said of that.

Or bring these human atrocities,
To the forefront to be seen as facts.

What greasy finger licking thief,
Politically connected or not...
Is expressing any concern about that?

Or expediting a searching hunt,
To expose those responsible...
For what they've done.
To undermine humanity!
With dust filled and empty victories,
Promised to be won.

And the number of countless bodies,
Left to bleed the hearts of those loved ones...
Still stunned and unconvinced.

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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