America's "Trojan Horse"



Mustached dictator's twelve year reign,
Reveled in burning books,
Dissenters, Skeptics, to sate blood Lust,
Gotten trampled under boot.

Tossed on the pyre of this hate,
Those who chose not to conform,
And darkness of this party and state,
Turned Europe to an ashen tomb.

Red terror's tyrants, bathed in blood,
Both banned their share of books,
To disagree meant torture, death,
And objectors' families doomed.

This duo of despots, one in East,
The other in Eurasia ruled,
Their means of pathing roads to hell,
All in the way consumed.

And now America has gotten ill,
Totalitarian Plague infects it,
Cultural revolution's imported in,
Free speech and books rejected.

Complicit in this coup are schools,
Higher learning lost its aim,
They'll gladly banish all debate,
While causing brains to drain.

Perversions of the Civil rights,
Egalitarian values skewed,
All opposition thought suppressed,
To blind, mold people's views.

They do declare much brotherly love,
Yet throw their stones with glee,
At those refusing to fall in line,
To never bend the knee.

Sinister reasons might be: Pride,
Greed, Envy, Gluttony, Sloth.
Such soulless hatred wells from core,
While spewing bile in Wrath.

"People's Enemy!", old Bolsheviks' snarl,
With that charge Millions died.
Now "racist" is the leftists' maul,
True aim, their opposition to smite.

Be it a neighbor, colleague, mate,
Maligned, and betrayed they'll be.
For most uncivil war is at hand,
Much worse will come, you'll see.

So fight we must, and never bend,
Our heads raised high in this gale.
Forever silenced we will remain,
If these new despots, over us reign.
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Submitted by RosenkrantzA on April 05, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCX DXDX XBXE XXXE XXXX XXDA XXXX XFXF GXXX XGXC DFXF XXAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,597
Words 266
Stanzas 12
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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