Bob McCarty Writes

After waking to find a comment submitted in response to an Oct. 3 post about Barack Obama, I contacted the author of that comment — a poem, actually — by phone this morning and asked what inspired her to write it.

“I think that’s kind of obvious,” said Merry Roloff, a 54-year-old aspiring writer who lives near Denver.  “There’s no way in hell I’ll vote for Obama.”

After reading it, I’m sure you’ll want to read more works written by this woman who, coincidentally, shares her birthday with Oprah Winfrey.

Below is her Obama-inspired poem:

The devil is quite near…

And though I watch around me, with wondrous eyes of awe
As the masses are quite mesmerized, by this devil in disguise
He speaks of change and sharing, his shape it shifts to please
And the masses they’re believing, on this hoary tongue of lies

He speaks of all the things he’ll do, of the dragons he will slay
And the spreading of the booty, to the masses he does tell
His opponent is a temperate man, whose heart is full with love
For a country held in turmoil, a place he knows quite well

But the masses are quite mesmerized, by this devil in disguise
As he speaks of better things to come, for the loved ones of us all
So I ask my friends and countrymen, please keep and open ear
And keep an open view on things, for the moment is quite near

I ask my friends and neighbors, who may be a slight naive
To take a second look around, and see what lurks beyond
For the devil tends to shift his shape, to please the eye of all
And he speaks his words to please the ear, and appeals to where we ache

So take another look my friends, and try to see the truth
And try to see the view beyond, the better days to come
For all we ever want and need, is within our grasp quite soon
If only through the fog we saw, the harvester of lies, the devil in disguise

He bears a name from lands afar, and his past is cloaked from all
His lineage of land not sure, a twisted past he wears
So please, I beg, I plead my case… please take another look
at this devil who has promised all, the fortune that they seek

Is this really what you seek my friends?
This sprite whose set the hook? For bait, is what he has laid out
and the school has seen the fare
And the school he has now netted
Is fully unaware.

To read more writings by Roloff, click here.