"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism" - Hannah Arendt
In the rich and fertile land of my birth,
Ancestral neighbors
Raised one another's barns and
Bartered the fruits of their homesteads.
They were hardy folks who knew the wisdom
of putting the "We" in "We the People."
Until now our great moral compass,
Whose self-correcting magnets
Twist and adjust toward the truth
That human rights belong to us all:
Had earned us the world's admiration.
But today, in a horror beyond all belief
Our national soul has been infested
By the stench and pus of demagogues
Who, in their delusions think
"Me" the people is superior to "We."
And for whom reason and law
Are for those too weak or poor to evade them.
Now, like our globe on its steady axis,
We must turn toward the light that sustains us
And dispel the demons of corruption
That have cast us into a purgatory of disfunction.
As long as it's "me the people" not "we"
There is no room left for us.
May 2
May 2, 2026 at 1:57 PM UTC
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism" - Hannah Arendt
In the rich and fertile land of my birth,
Ancestral neighbors
Raised one another's barns and
Bartered the fruits of their homesteads.
They were hardy folks who knew the wisdom
of putting the "We" in "We the People."
Until now our great moral compass,
Whose self-correcting magnets
Twist and adjust toward the truth
That human rights belong to us all:
Had earned us the world's admiration.
But today, in a horror beyond all belief
Our national soul has been infested
By the stench and pus of demagogues
Who, in their delusions think
"Me" the people is superior to "We."
And for whom reason and law
Are for those too weak or poor to evade them.
Now, like our globe on its steady axis,
We must turn toward the light that sustains us
And dispel the demons of corruption
That have cast us into a purgatory of disfunction.
As long as it's "me the people" not "we"
There is no room left for us.
