BLACK BOOTS MARCH
Black boots march across the nation
Hands held high with straight stiff salute
Confusion and fear mark the mood
As more black shirted men gather.
Did we ever expect them here
With steel blue eyes and stern faces
Seeking out the flawed and impure
Yet, there they are an uncontrolled force.
The lawful courts do now permit
An effort to allow one race
Selected people gathered up
And secretly vanish from sight.
What is America today
This nation once was, is no more
A dim memory of the past
How did it happen oh so fast!
REBIRTH
Winter leaves a straw lifeless plain
The frosty bleak ground lies silent
Little stirs but a small guest
That scavenger finds few treats.
The weather forever changes
All sallow fields caress the sun
Warmer evenings soften the earth
Morning dew stirs the dormant.
What appeared deceased comes to life
A hard soil leaves a footprint
Green shoots appear as straw gives way
Icy clime shifts to pleasant days.
The worst of times a memory
Tender nights follow bitter weather
Blooms appear on the dead tundra
Spring starts a rebirth and resets.
SILENT LABORS
The factories muted
Just metallic noise heard
Autotrons do the work
No humans anywhere.
Where are all the people?
The streets empty and bleak
Shuttled off to someplace
Any who can say where?
Products move off the line
Unseen buyers e-pay
Products move, silent, fast.
Windows show no faces.
Tall empty buildings stand
Neighborhoods have no life
Local shops now shuttered
Barren, sterile, silence.
THE CARDBOARD MAN
From afar an average man
Yet a strange empty appearance
Fixed without any connection
Just a blank face and dead blue eyes.
Well dressed and handsome to the gaze
Yet little is seen or absorbed
Clearly a witness but unmoved
Commotion makes no impression.
Nothing is learned or understood
There is no concern or feeling
An observer that does not see
With senses that never receive.
Yet he is little different
Then many who address the day
Untouched by all that surrounds them
The cardboard men for all to see.
Dr. Marc J. Yacht, MD, MPH is a retired medical doctor. He spent several years in private family practice and then joined the Florida Department of Health. He was appointed Executive Medical Director, Pasco County Health Department (1987-2007). Dr. Yacht has served as past Presidents of the Pasco County Medical Society, the Florida Public Health Association and was active on local, State and national committees and boards addressing Public Health related issues. Currently, his interests are music, poetry writing, and submitting OP-EDS relating to current national issues. He and his wife are both retired. Their three children are married. He and his wife currently reside in Hudson, Florida. Email: Mjyacht58@gmail.com
