So today is the day
America the great, the free, the beautiful
To show us, the rest of the word
What democracy is about!
So today is the day
Your vote will decide the fate
Of America the great, the free, the beautiful
And the rest of the world!
So today is the day
To choose between two candidates
Who have battled for a year
Whose fight has been so ugly
That the country has been torn apart !
So today is the day
Deep entrenched racism has shown itself again
Riots the which had not been seen
In half a century flared again and again
Showing the brutal police forces
Not fighting to defend the people
But fighting the rubble
A fight of the have against the have not
Of corporate greed against individual liberties
A fight of corrupted crumbling values against despair
From there America, the great, the free, the beautiful
Will you ever repair?
So today is the day
The ugly face of deep sexism
Has led attacks against its own womankind
Whose earlier fights brought us gender equality
Pushed away and trampled in the mud
In man lockers talking
What a revealingly degrading day
Of the reality of the glass ceiling
Denying us the right to be ourselves
To choose for ourselves
Naked Truth is in the street
America , the great, the free, the beautiful
Choose carefully!
So today is the day
To choose between
An entitled old man
Who has revealed himself
To be a crooked ignorant
A dangerous demagogue
Who has called to the lowest
Dividing values in mankind
Playing on the American Dream
The powerful myth permeating society
Of the self-made man becoming billionaire
When never ever was he a poor himself
What a magnificent show of self marketing!
Even the GOP fell to this illusionist
The media couldn't make enough of him
Greed is such an aphrodisiac
Passing his failures as amusing peccadilloes
The country had never seen the like of him.
So today is the day
Opposite him stands an old woman
Showing with confidence the scars
Her years of public life experience
Had brought to her
Nothing newsworthy, nothing appealing here
She had been groomed for a long time
For this fight to be the first woman president
Her strength, her intelligence, her experience denied
Pushed away as an unhealthy power drive
Deeply upsetting to witness to many.
But there you are,
So today is the day
America the great, the free, the beautiful
The choice is yours!
Lucette C. Bailliet
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