new Isolationist

when Mario Cuomo held us enthralled
he conjured a shared vision of what's great
a country vast, dreamt by each migrant small
who married in to build and be our State
but nativists now cultivate discord
as if the only prudent course were fear
of them that swarm our shores, a baleful horde
who threaten us and all that we hold dear
this year, it's Trump that wants to slam the door
to guard what's good and already inside
to let the larger world dissolve in gore
that we should stand aloof wrapped in our pride
corrosive thought that We can't include All
and ought to cower sniping from our wall