God Save America

Bored with picking time from my teeth
a swarm of idle moments
beg a home on the page
pleading for justice  
while darker whispers burrow deep
until the sway of the Zephyr
soothes the night
and then I wake in a sweat
dreaming the bad guy got re-elected
the deserts caught fire
and oceans of apathy couldn't put it out
while all the world was humming
God save America
from itself