Dear Politician

What do you stand for, if anything at all?

I see you there but you appear to be

More concerned about your fashion

More concerned about saving face

But you don't seem to have one ounce

Of respect for this place.

What are you doing here?

What do you hope to achieve?

By hurting your constituents,

disrespecting both

ancestors and seeds?

By hurting your environment?

By committing war crimes?

By choosing a collapsing dollar?

Over those who put you in power?

Voters put you in power

Because they believed in you

Now everyone is angry

Because of the things you do.

Your choices in office

Gave voter-wide tummy aches

Doesn't that bother you?

Every morning you wake?

It doesn't bother you

That your choices are poor?

Please tell me you'll never

Run for office once more.

We don't wish you bad

We just wish you gone

Far away from what

We call our home.

Kahala Lei

Blood Money Poets

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