Sweet Surrender

From Dorothy Dawe:

The Trump presidency is over (Click HERE) – and now, when America needs leadership the most, he takes no responsibility.  He is literally the aged crank hollering, “Get off my lawn” (and his “lawn” is rapidly becoming a hellish landscape of his own making).

He is a petulant dotard who spends his day ranting and raving on Twitter.  He’s the proverbial rat trapped in a corner, albeit an unstable and unintelligent rat.  
 
America is at the mercy of  “a deadly lack of leadership” (Click HERE – from the linked Times’ article: “America needs a leader; it has a lout”).
 
Amid the stress, the anxiety, and the fear we are all feeling, today would be a good day for Trump to resign.
 
This “churlish child…among serious leaders” calls to mind Emmett Lee Dickinson’s poem, “Yo, Rat – surrender here” (below on the left).  Dickinson’s poem inspired third cousin Emily to pen her poem, “A Rat surrendered here” (below on the right). 

By Emmett Lee Dickinson:
 
Yo, Rat – surrender here
Your brief career of Smear
And Fraud and Fear.
 
Of Ignominy’s due
He is entitled to
Beware.
 
His most dividing Trap
His tendency to snap
Cannot persist –
 
Damnation is his Friend
Repugnant he – resign
At last.

By Emily Dickinson:
 
A Rat surrendered here
A brief career of Cheer
And Fraud and Fear.

Of Ignominy's due
Let all addicted to
Beware.

The most obliging Trap
Its tendency to snap
Cannot resist --

Temptation is the Friend
Repugnantly resigned
At last.