Twas the Night After Elections

Twas the night after elections,
And all through my house
we ate our family dinner together,
and I snuggled with my spouse.

But low - I've taken phone calls
from friends and family all day long,
with talk of hell and handbaskets
and the whole heated dance and song.

With tales of Senators, far and wide
whose ethics are lukewarm at best.
Of powerful agendas and hatred of the right,
that continues to put our nation to the test.

The War in Iraq has caused emotions to boil
and sent people to polls in throngs
to rise up and send their virulent message
that this lamentable travesty to bring freedom to Iraq is simply horribly wrong.

Costing lives of our soliders by the thousands now,
I share the grief and the heartfelt prayers for peace.
But if we fail our obligation to stand for righteousness and justice in this world,
How will the Islamo-facsist and other cultural genocide ever cease?

Indeed, there is ample reason to be concerned -
as the same people so intent to save the earth
simultaneously champion our glorious legal right to
scrape our children from our wombs before their birth.

Steeling ourselves for a much heftier tax burden
certainly seems quite in order,
as my state ballot this time included 27 different tax increase initiatives -
none of them remotely concerned with protecting our border.

Quality education of our children is a universally shared goal,
but when the same public schools who are forbidden from dispersing aspirin to my child
can now legally arrange for her to leave campus for an abortion without notifying us - her parents -
it seems the system has gone more than a little wild.

Abolishing the offending concept of "illegal alien",
Allowing a border freeflow,
Granting entitlement at the expense of those darned rich people,
Creating increasingly socialized programs as we go.

Seems clearly to be among the goals of the ideology who
yesterday put on the far better show,
and as of now (sayeth the 24 hour news), hold both houses of Congress
- so into a jolly 2-year stalemate we go.

But hey- maybe the whole world will like us more now,
when you stand for nothing - you're an easier-tolerated friend.
And, of course, the economy might also start looking up, too,
because money does tend to be our goal in the end.

Our obese political animal must be tamed
as it's roars have become twangy and old
Indeed, I hesitate to invest much of myself in it now,
even though I admit grinning that at least we kept AH-nold.

Once upon a time, we shared ethics, morals, faith, and goals
But how far we have now sadly roamed,
with tales of even Christian pastors calling themselves "recovered evangelicals"
we've definitely wandered very far from home.

As people put their faith into the mechanisms of man,
be they politics, church, or other
we are forgetting to embody the Golden Rule
and are readily abandoning our love for one another.

It's hard not to be tossed by the gale force winds
as the forces of national change ebb and flow
in the political chess game that seems endless at best,
and is more convoluded than we'll ever really know.

And though hearts are duly troubled by the tremors in Washington
for those who believe it is never as bad as it may seem.
Because God is not limited to the size of our problems,
and His authority alone rules supreme.