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Nov 2020
Today, in the millions
you spoke.
You exerted your freedom of speech.
You stamped your convictions by choosing
the best suited person to lead.
You rose while our world crumpled and failed you,
You spoke because you now felt the need.

We, the world waited with anticipation for this day and it finally
came.
To see our bold Americans speak their mind and make the change.
In droves you came,
and lined up, hid in boxes and picked a name.
You told the world exactly who you are.
The world was watching, judging, hoping and depending on you to want the same as us.
Your action brought a satisfaction that you were heard and you
went home clear minded that you choose the best, while the rest of us couldn't close our eyes and stayed up staring with unrest.
The voice of America spoke today.
Your voice. The day our happiness would depend.
Turns our undefeated most popular student in our 2020 yearbook has terrible taste in men.

We want to love and support you because we all owe you for
being American. For shaping our history. For coke and levis and gossip magazines and saving our ***** at some point in time.

But with disbelief and disappointment, the light we once looked for in dark times has gone astray.
We may have to turn our back on you.
This shame we feel might make us have to look away.

So many of you spoke today and voted at the polls,
We don't know who you are anymore,
you choose a broken man, a person with no soul.

This cursed virus haunts us all we need leaders that will see the plight of the common man and have answer s for what will be.
Yet choice you made today will poison us,  like an oil spill in the sea.
An added disappointment while we cling to broken promises and a life which used to be.
Written by
SarahSutherland
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