American Premonition

Overwhelmed, I'm driven far from me;
From the beyond and from within I see:
Were I clairvoyant, of what I see I'd tell,
I'd warn how peoples fall and fell:
I'd show neither in riddle nor in rhyme
How it has happened time after time -
Always from within does it come first,
Always within do wounds bleed worst -
Hemorrhaging what is common to all,
What chaos comes before the fall!
Disordered in disarray, law disappears-
Fright grips all as the end comes near,
For nothing stands as it always stood,
Protecting from evil all that is good.