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As I sit watching Adam Schiff introduce the articles of impeachment

To the assembled senators

On this dark and rainy day

(Why do so many auspicious occasions occur against a backdrop of gloom?)

The honesty of the rain

Stands in stark contrast

To the great trickery, the subterfuge,

Afoot in the senate chambers

As those august members

Steel their minds against

Any stirrings of conscience

That may still cling

To whatever tattered shards of decency

Yet remain

Struggling, to maintain buoyancy

In their hearts and minds.

No one can serve two masters

With equal fidelity

When the interests of one

Collide with those of the other

And no senator

Can provide impartial consideration of evidence

Of their leader’s wrongdoing

After stating publicly their belief

That acquittal is a foregone conclusion.

The rain has no guile, No hidden agenda,

Nothing to hide and nothing to do

But follow the law of gravity.

The rain plays its part

With fidelity to the whole.

The members of the Senate

Whose job it is to set aside partisanship

And act with impartiality

In their deliberations

Should do likewise

And be true like the rain.

Tim Konrad

2020.01.16