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The Democratic Speeches.
Lyrical Jazz:
I watched in awe
at what I saw,
I felt a sense of calm;
from words thus spoke,
would angst revoke, spreading like a balm.
Four years of mounting anger,
combined with growing fear,
were lessened with each word I heard,
the danger chimed less clear.
A growing sense of purpose,
a vast internal sigh,
I felt I had a voice once more;
no more would I decry,
the poison of deluded minds,
insanity ever-present,
I felt freedom seldom mine;
now could I dissent.
Accustomed to a monotone,
my ears picked up the new,
tones of excitation,
and the words that rang so true.
There were years where all I felt,
was the growing disenfranchisement,
of many so deceived, by blatant aggrandizement;
by autocratic propaganda, echoing times to me, of moral deprivation;
when evil stripped identity from millions in a nation.
Democracy shone from every vote