would it be too much to ask ...

would it be too great a task

to forbear the bully 

who has sullied our national conscience

from rising ever again ...

would it be too much to hope

the slope of his descent 

too slippery

for the minions to follow his miscreant mind ...

would it be too much to imagine 

the red regions of the heartland restored of heart ...

riven and reborn

without fear of differentness,

armed only with the weapons of well-being?

what will it take to shake off the lies

that bind?

how can it be too much democracy for some

who want the power of the people

to deny it by all the people?