We, the People

If government is not to help

the people it is, what's

a government for?

                       "We, the People"

is pretty clear.  The language has not,

should not change.

Who cannot say "We the People"

have been cast  adrift?

Who cannot recognize that corporations 

have become more valuable 

than individuals?

                       And still we beat

the drum for those who can't

lead us.

            Our expectations

and our realities of leadership

are schizophrenic:  we are sick 

with emptiness  and think someone

else can make us well.

Our government is a servant --

those we elect have forgotten this:

only we can remind them of the

error of their ways and stop

our own insanity of false praise

for what we'd reprimand

                                   our children for.

-Byron Hoot

Stained Glass Writers of Punxsutawney