Philip Daniel Cook

Yesterday\'s Anthem

Remember when we were young and free.

Had nothing but all we loved

dancing in yesterday\'s anthem.

 

Our private sector; or our personal hope

to struggle and strive up the hill of life.

 

Where we are young and free.

Rearrange our dreams the way

we think our lives in our teeth.

 

And our hope was burning bright

like an endless light.

And our forever wasn\'t bond by chains.

We became.

Anything!

 

And the walls collapsed,

and our secrets weren\'t the world.

We dressed in our sorrows,

down like the yesterday we hide.

 

That we are everything!

 

What did you mention to 

people you cannot explain?

 

That we are so much more

than anything carved in stone.

But what we already are.

 

Do we completely ignore?

Yesterday.

 

So don\'t mark me down

as complete when I am

frozen still.

 

Anthem.