Change it Up

I'm for change, how 'bout you?

We all could do with something new

But do we know exactly who

Or what this change will really do?

This word has trickled like the rain

Through every candidate's campaign

But I'm compelled to still complain

That I don't know how we will gain

Besides more change back from the store

The one change I would most adore

Is for those running to be more

Precise about the change they're for

That rhetoric they all now spread

In place of facts, finds fault instead

And only serves to make me dread

The choice that waits for me ahead

When negative campaign machines

Encourage these contrary schemes

They just replay the same old themes

And too alike, they seem to seem

The more they spend to hurt another

Less is their difference from each other

And in the end, lie neath the cover

Of just the same old costly lover

With every insult that's exchanged

The process just grows more deranged

And leaves me angry and estranged

For in the end, we're all short changed

- Carol Smith