Oh beautiful for specious lies
Where Christless values reign;
For superficial battle cries
Above the muted strain:
Diversity, diversity
God hides His face from thee—
And frown he should, while planethood
Distracts humanity.

How sad it is when victim groups
Monopolize the floor;
Enabling the marginals
To agitate for more.
Diversity, diversity,
Your queer agenda rules—
With Balkanizing tendencies
Imposed on witless tools.

Degenerate in decadence
The ailing eagle flies;
In spirals of irrelevance
Through clouded toxic skies.
Diversity, diversity
The Left defines your terms;
Our weakened body politic
Grows sicker as it squirms.

Oh God, we need a miracle
Before the patient fails;
Celestial intervention please
To purge us of what ails.
Diversity, diversity
We shall not overcome—
Unless the Lord reveal  His word
‘Twixt here and Kingdom Come.

PR⊕MP✟ 20:

write a poem informed by musical phrasing or melody, that employs some form of soundplay (rhyme, meter, assonance, alliteration). One way to approach this is to think of a song you know and then basically write new lyrics that fit the original song’s rhythm/phrasing.

Oh beautiful for specious lies
where Christless values reign;
for superficial battle cries
above the muted strain:
Diversity, diversity
God hides His face from thee –
and frown he should, while planethood
distracts humanity.

How sad it is when victim groups
monopolize the floor;
enabling the marginals
to agitate for more.
Diversity, diversity,
Your queer agenda rules –
with Balkanizing tendencies
imposed on witless tools.

Degenerate in decadence
the ailing eagle flies;
in spirals of irrelevance
through clouded toxic skies…
Diversity, diversity
the Left defines your terms –
the weakened body politic
grows sicker as it squirms.

Oh Lord we need a miracle
before the patient fails;
celestial intervention please
to purge us of what ails.
Diversity, diversity
We shall not overcome –
Unless the Lord reveal  His word
twixt here and Kingdom Come…

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