OBAMA'S DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE, Nov 2008
Donna Williams
November 04, 2008
November fifth, in 2008
the world had held its breath
to wait
to take to hell the express train
all the way to hell's front gate.
Economies around the world
were on their knees
as it unfurled
upon the screens, through radio waves
the news we just may be yet saved.
An end to torture, wholesale slaughter,
illegal wars made by design,
an end to wholesale wastage by a culture bent on 'mine'
an end to strong-arm tactics in the trade amidst the poor
an end to social cancer in an era bent on more,
an end to white supremacy, separatism and the status quo,
an end to jobs all shipped away along with Plumber Joe,
an end to slaughter of the polar bears on Alaska's melting ice
and a start to an America that had a chance to pass for 'nice'.
Obama held the hope that day, not only of his nation,
he delivered in a landslide, a global feeling of salvation.