We, the fathers of sovereign stand,
do leave our will under firm command.
The legacy for which we bled,
Our children, live the life we led.
To you children we leave this all
take it dears and do stand tall.
As we retreat to graves of lust,
do rejoice over what we left, the dust:
-A land marked with lines of chalk
-A path of war on which you could walk
-A bloody history in the books
-Rivers of industrial hooks
-An anthem which we seldom sung
-A conflict born when even we were young
-Pride and love for those who rule
-Hatred to your neighbors cruel
Rejoice O children, in this noble share
this is our will, inherit take care.
Make of your nation what you must
and fight, for the dust is still our dust.
Under the Blessing of Our God, Signed and Imposed Your Fathers of Old
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This poem speaks from the dust. It echoes the past one filled with blood and violence where it was an eye for an eye and one had to guard what one had. We have not changed much and neither has the world. We still need to guard what we have or think we have for it seems that nothing really belongs to us. A powerful poem of guardianship that may be taken less literally and more metaphorically to guard what we are rather than what we have. Nicely penned
'We have not changed much'... A quite jarring statement, which is as equally true. A shame really of how our greed and materialism has only compounded over the century, or so it seems.
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It reads like a wise prayer with both morality and advice. Nice write.
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Written beautifully, many wise words that should be heeded, as our world becomes evwrmore self-centered, greedy and selfish, a traight man is good at but is now taking it to new levels, nicely expressed and written
Thank you Poetic License for your read and insight. Appreciate the fave!
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