Inauguration Day, 2017

If he was a better person
we would not live in fear,
if he was kinder we would
live in hope,
if he was brighter 
we would be confident,
if he was not president perhaps
the world would not end.

There are too many 'what ifs'

for us to make sense

of a world where insanity
is truth everyday,
eaten with cereal and toast,
serial mania and
presidential boasts.

The drones will fly
where ever he decrees,
friends and enemies will
come to see that brief flash
as fire rains down,
your last sight, final vision,
a manic grinning clown,

clutching a bible he cares

nothing about.