The Great Millennial Time

THE GREAT MILLENNIAL TIME

Election time’s come with the snow
Elephants rage and donkeys fret.
The former group proclaims reform
of health care laws, taxes and debt.

But they’ve been just as profligate.
Creating ills they now bewail.
Both elephants and donkeys quake
lest “throw the rascals out” prevail.

The econ’s stuck, stock market’s down,
radical gays want marriage banns;
our border South’s awash in blood
and myriads live employment sans.

We drift afar from virtues prized
by founders who laid out the plan;
the god in whom they put their trust’s
become a stranger in the land.

But those with vision still can see
that prophecies are being fulfilled;
That troubles, earthquakes, wars, disease
are harbingers that god has willed –

preceding when he comes again
to brush away the dross and grime
to set aright the affairs of men
and bring the great millennial time.