What Do We Do With The Anger?
What Do We Do With The Anger? ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 1, 2023
When your very being is deemed to not matter
By powers that are spewing venomous chatter
Resulting in rights being obliterated and torn
Throwing souls into a tailspin, your spirits forlorn
What shall we do with the anger that’s growing?
What bromide do we ingest so our rage won’t be showing?
When hatred is allowed to reign unchecked
Good lives will be ruined and souls will be wrecked
To all who are feeling this horrific pain
Knowthat there is hope in this land yet to reign
We go to the polls and vote for compassion
Bring back the love, make justice “in fashion”
Right now it is painful, right now devastated
We’ve been hurt before, lord knows we’ve been berated
But rise up we shall and rise up we must
In this I must believe, in this I must trust
For good humans are out there who will refuse to cower
And our votes yet to come shall place them in power
The anger is valid, the anger might remain
But just sitting on that anger will all be in vain
If not used to morph the future into something more grand
A place of justice and kindness in this great land
Let us take that pain and use it for good
Change the future we can, change the future we should
Turn the venom to compassion, make the land once more sane
It has happened before, it will happen again
About this poem
How do we deal with the anger of injustice?
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Written on July 01, 2023
Submitted by shulman.gary on July 01, 2023
Modified by shulman.gary on July 01, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXX AABBCCDDEEFFXXGGAAEEHHIIEX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 1,346 |
Words | 262 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 26 |
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