America Is or America Was

12.26.2023

 

Evil is

As evil does

Evil’s done

Pure evil now

 

America is

Or America was

Depends upon

What we do now

What We the People

Will allow

 

We’ve watched them steal

We’ve watched them all lie

We’ve watched them kill

Watched Lady Liberty cry

As she’s watched as we’ve

Allowed our freedom to die

 

But it’s not dead yet

How much closer to death

Will we allow it to get

 

Not another inch, says I

As Ben Franklin once penned

I say

Join or die

 

Said Paul Revere

On that two lantern night

They’re coming to take

Our freedom tonight

As they have been for decades

As they will forever try

 

But not on my watch

Not in our sun’s light

 

Washington to Franklin

Of the sun on his chair

Was it rising

Or setting

Metaphoric to be clear

The sun was America

A new star was born

Now politically addled

And from the inside

Now torn

 

But unlike the sun

Faithful to rise

Faithful to set

Not time for the flame

Of liberty to set

Not time for America

To give up just yet

 

I’ll be Patrick Henry

I’ll be Paul Revere

Whatever it takes

To make it perfectly clear

2024

Is a critical year

And I’m here to fight

For a freedom

I hold dear

 

Evil is

As evil does

Evil’s done

Pure evil now

 

America is

Or America was

Is America done

The question now

 

And “America is…”

Is the only answer

We the People

Should ever allow