Journey Entries of an Insomniac #1 – Election Year

Sometimes I wonder how we all sleep at night

When despite the magic of gravity

This world is spiraling

Down

Down

Down…

I turned off the news last year

I got tired of crying everyday

Only to tune into 24 hours of real life

I’d take that trade any day

‘Cause I can grasp reality firm

Tell me the truth

But I can’t even get it to talk to me straight

When it spins out of control

Under journalistic holds

You gonna think yourself to death

My momma told me

her pancakes

To wake me up

And I’d rather die…

Informed, anyway

I remember Tallahassee ‘00

And as I stare down the barrel of another election

I can’t help but wonder

“What else can be stolen?�

“Do my people realize what’s at stake?�

And although I’d like to believe that truth always prevails

The closer I get to November

The more my soul begins to cry for us

Disenfranchised folk…   

- Cassandra Jones


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