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What Trust Can Still Be Had These Emboldened Days

*By: A.X. Bueno *

Actions speak louder than words is something I didn’t used to fully believe

Felt too simplistic for my liking

But actions definitely speak louder nowadays

As the truth has become so much harder to discern

When those we gave power to no longer feel the need to cover up their lies

Emboldened to the point they tell them freely and without consequence

Barely bothering to hold their tongues or even rage against those they despise

Instead bothered by every time they’re questioned or challenged in any way

Their contempt for supposed opposition is blatantly clear

But they’re so comfortable spinning it so they’re the ones we must hear

And trust them that they’re doing their best to keep all our interests in heart

While they threaten and call for violence against those who won’t bend

Or those who instead of falling in line choose to stand apart

They expect us to be content as they test and break every rule they wish

Using the status quo to their advantage

In ways it doesn’t feel like we’ve seen before

Of course that’s contentious but at this point semantics shouldn’t matter

When they keep pushing and pushing in their attempts to gain even more

The ones who think they deserve to be unquestionably on top of the world

And ignore the widening gaps

To make it seem like we’d be there too if we were better or just tried

But really it seems like they’d rather the less privileged of us up and died

And I wish that some type of alternative to all that was true

But with all the mixed up messages and the effects of their ill thought out actions

I couldn’t in good conscience say that though they’ll keep saying

What they’re doing is best for the country and me and you

But in a country many people no longer want to come to with all its dangers

All the misinformation and betrayals of trust and faith, the bullying threats

And the indefinite holdings and the tragic, brutal deaths

What trust is left unbroken at this point and what good faith and dignity are left

I’m not sure anymore but I know I’ll try to live by what I believe to be true

In contrast against people who will say and do anything

To justify the cruelty they or others on their behalf do

The despicable acts they hide and let slide

No wonder they want us to believe so hard what they say is or isn’t true

But regardless of what they want there are still facts and the truth out there

So while waiting for those to win through and goodness to eventually win

We’ve got to do what we can and endure

And hope the dawning of better days will once again begin

For pain and lies and emboldened tyranny can’t and won’t always be in store

What we can’t do is give too deeply into despair

Or fall for or give leeway to their detestable trickery