# What Trust Can Still Be Had These Emboldened Days

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: Hope, Lies, Politics, Tricks, Truth, Ubiquitous, Vent Poetry, Venting

Finished a new poem… a couple of weeks of ago actually. Posted it on my blog site then. Meant to upload it here sooner but kept forgetting to. A general vent poem to allow me to rant a bit about the state of the world then and now since this is poem is just as relevant if not more so right now.  
  
Blog site link(since I realized it’s not linked here and there’s no option to link personal websites): [https://thegoodmanscorner.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/what-trust-can-still-be-had-these-emboldened-days/](https://thegoodmanscorner.wordpress.com/2026/02/12/what-trust-can-still-be-had-these-emboldened-days/)

**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 

Source: https://sofurry.com/s/n922r0y1