The Lament

The clock it was ticking, the time it was short,

Tempers a flaring, tension a fraught.

There was no joy in Congress that day

The House Republicans had come out to play

Come Boehner, come Cantor, come Ryan too

Come aggravate, come decimate, come do what you do

Come heartless, come vapid, come fail every test

Come trouble, come headache, come bring out the rest

So we sat in the House, we sat there we few

Who knew it was wrong, knew not what to do,

We sat there and listened, and just shook our heads

Another piece of America now nearly dead

Put guns in our hands, show immigrants the door

Polluting our air, condemning our poor,

Make Obamacare unhealthy, make caring a flaw

Create a debt ceiling when you ramble on the Floor

You sit there so smug, who have torn this House down

Where is your compassion for there's none to be found

You hypothecate without basis, treat facts like the plague

You make lying an art-form, make truths seem so vague

You do damage to our Body, you do harm to us all

You do disservice to our President in hopes that he fall

You can't see the forest for you cut down the trees

You bring government to a halt and reason to its knees

You are less than you should be, you are less than you must

You have earned only enmity, you have not earned our trust

You have battered and beaten and broken and bruised

You have nothing to offer and everything to lose

So we sat in the House all that too too long day

We sat and we listened for what could we say

We sat and we grieved for damage being done

We sat and we waited for answers to come

But there was no joy in Congress that day

Not with Boehner, Cantor and Ryan at play

At day's end we got up and turned off the lights

Our House still a mess, no clean-up in sight.