There came a man, wealth was his god;And vain and boastful was his play,
But still the people did applaud
And send him on his merry way
To fame and fortune, wrongly earned.
But he the power of fame had learned.
But when his star began to fade,
Ill fortune raised him up anew.
So to TV he turned, and played
A corporate mogul, strong and true.
But when off-camera, lust ran wild -
It mattered not woman or child.
But those who fawned him let it slide
And helped his heinous deeds to hide.
Though fame was fun, he wanted more,
So power he ventured next to seek.
He sought it as he had before:
Suck up to strong and crush the weak.
The simpering haters joined his cause,
Ignoring all the rules and laws.
Though all the girls he'd groped before
Bore witness and called out his ways,
And others named the Russian shore
As stoking his demented haze,
Still half a nation followed him;
Liberty's light grew faint and dim.
Somehow this nation let it slide;
Democracy just up and died.
Four years his ego rampant ran
Before the voters turned him out.
But four years on it was his plan
That put plain decency to rout.
Now regained his tainted height,
He turned to put his foes to flight.
A goon squad serving him alone
And minions spouting garbled lies?
Ere long, pretense was up and gone.
See, this is how a nation dies.
But still the ones with legal power
Failed oh, so badly in that hour.
Again the cowardly let it slide
And left him on his throne of pride.
He waged his war yet undeclared
On all who dared to disagree,
And rained foul hate throughout the land
From sea to no-more-shining sea.
E'en as his mind grew weak and pained,
His minions siezed his power and reigned.
And so we stand at Hell's own gate -
Or is it Heaven's? But who can tell?
Are we defunct? Is it too late?
Or can this story yet end well?
Will evil be cast out for good,
This nation yet be what it should?
Or, since vain Congress let it slide,
Has this country, at long last, died?
(January 2026)
