A Powerful Wrong: A Sense of Manic Worth

A battleship or two
Can add fuel
To a profuse and perilous longing;
That emboldened lengthening
Of a nation’s dark and deadly desires;
Or a response to the jarring unrest and attacks
Against a global actor…

A bellicose and cantankerous brokering -
That game of morose and fatal ambitions;
Relying on oceanic, air and firepower -
An imperial government’s worldly pursuits…
Or a wise and appropriate decision to apply penalties
For a group’s evil and vexing provocations…

A military operation -
To establish control in a portentous
And foreseeable,
Considerably hostile means…

That possible takeover of an independent,
Sovereign, and autonomous land
Laying in the heartrending scopes
Of its endangered horizon…

A strong economy advances America’s
Mirrored landscapes -
Objectives vital to the daily survival
Of its citizens are least affordable
And may never be achieved
Through increasing and historic amounts of debt;

Living within the financial means
And framework shall be vital
To Planet Earth,
Meaning the U.S.’s critical creation
Of a manageable, balanced budget…

And keeping taxes low
At the height of the food chain
Shall cross the meaningful clouds
Of the vibrant odyssey
Toward society’s qualified marriage -
Between those energies of scale
And high employment expectations -

Adding to those supply chain columns
Of prescribed and prescient,
Command conditions…