What They've Become

It depresses the hell out of me From what I have heard and read and did see, The people that I know and that I am related to Including my church friends which I couldn't believe to be true. I hear and see them constantly talking with hate And judging other people's fate, And how they wish and pray upon them the very worse As if they are placing upon them a terrible curse. They blame their and the country's problems on others Because, that is their beliefs and druthers, They never go by truth, facts or words of the wise They adhere and believe in gossip, rumors and lies. They blame all of their problems always on them And also all of the country's mayhem, If there is a depression, recession crime or an assault It's always someone else's fault. If a person is poor, desperate or needy They immediately think of them evil and pathetic and seedy And if they are from another land They want them all kicked out, deported and banned. The Bible says to welcome the alien the stranger Instead they are harassed and cursed and seen and stereotype as a danger, Now their heart is full of hate and rumors and never love As they want this country to become a private country club. My friends and family became the type of people I don't want to know With hearts and souls as black as a piece of coal, Unto them I would never be trusting or confiding They turned into people that I wouldn't tell where Anne Frank was hiding. Randy L. McClave