Thanks for your kind comment, Patrick, and for your own excellent poem.

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Outstanding write, it's what I'm seeing with my own eyes too, and you put it perfectly. Thank you for this one, it will stick with me.

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Thank you Trevor and Graham for your kind comments and thanks to those who liked this poem.

I hope the 'Good' America will reassert itself and that, just in time, the country will return to normal relations with the rest of the world. But I am not sure. It may be that Trump has unleashed many suppressed instincts of American superiority, unilateralism and plain bullying which will be very difficult to put back into the bottle, whoever comes to power next time.

However, let's remain optimistic and hope for the best.

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America is a young country, relatively speaking. In its youth, like any toddler, just wanted to be loved and told he/she was a good kid. Now into the troubled teens, where tantrums are normal, and "I want" rules. Maybe they'll settle down when they get into their middle years?

Seriously though, I'm not sure how America can recover from this. The rest of the world can't trust him, 'cause he changes the goalposts in every rant he posts. And nobody dares oppose because of the fears of a "First they came" scenario. It's poems like this that help drag it into the light.

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I believe that European leaders should come together to oppose Trump and let the world see they are not in agreement with the rambling twaddle of this buffoon!

If he isn't locked up after his presidential tenure is finished there is no justice in this world. Hopefully all his gold-plated iconography will be easy to tear down when he is gone!

Thank you for this Stephen

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I wrote this poem hoping that it wasn't true. I want to believe in America and its value. Maybe the mid-terms, Article 25 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court(?!) or just some greedy, self-centred implosion will sort it out.
The fact remains, however, that the majority of Americans voted for Trump, knowing full well what he intended to do. And apparently they didn't care.
Let's hope there is a 'Good America'.

A Good America

I know that there’s a good America:
Of liberty, of wisdom and of hope,
A haven generous in spirit,
Unscarred by revenge’s slippery slope.

I know that there’s a good America;
I sense that it’s close, not far out of reach.
The present requires we learn from the past,
Where history contains so much to teach.

I know that there’s a good America;
Though now we are encumbered with the bad,
Soon the sun will rise again on freedom
And build back the world that we once had.

I know that there’s a good America;
That decent beating heart cannot be wrong.
Its timeless values cannot be denied;
The current depravity cannot last long.

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