DEAR GOD ~ PLEASE MAKE AMERICA ~ GREAT AGAIN !
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on TRUMP & BREXIT
If you can trust yourself ~ when the whole World's in turmoil
Then don't look back and cry ~ look forward please and PRAY and FIXIT
If you can still dream ~ but not make dreams your master
If you can still think ~ but not make thoughts your aim
If you can bear to face that the TRUTH of EACH ELECTION
And watch the things you gave your life to broken
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to all "Hold on !"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue
Or walk with kings ~ nor lose the common touch
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you
If all men count with you but none too much !
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run
Then you'll be a LADY ~ my sweet Daughter
Then you will be a MAN ~ my loving SON !
Thanks for reading ~ comments please ~ Love to all ~ BRIAN
As a true European ~ I am sorry about BREXIT
As a lover of the USA ~ I would have preferred HILLARY
As a CHRISTIAN ~ I fear for an increasingly Secular World
But I still have Faith ~ Hope ~ Love ~ AMEN !
Acknowledgements to Rudyard Kipling ~ for the basis of this poem.
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Author:
BRIANSODES (Pseudonym) (
Offline) - Published: November 9th, 2016 04:27
- Comment from author about the poem: In life we all have to face WHAT IFS ! But if things and elections don't go our way ~ we have to stand up and still be counted ! Love to all especially Americans ~ which ever way you chose to vote ! BRIAN ~ HUGS
- Category: Reflection
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nice this x
Thanks NICOLE ~ Pleased you liked it ~ Yours BRIAN X
Very well done. He says make america great again, but i's always been great to me. Nice rhymes! Trump was actually decent to Hillary in his acceptance speech. Hillary got popular vote. Another great one, Brian. Hugs!
I agree CHIS ~ I love America & Americans just a much as the UK. Fortunately There are many expereinced and decent Politicians in the Republican Party who will guide Trump and reign him in. It needs a lot of prayer. SPENCE his VP is a godly Man ~ Love & Hugs in the Spirit ~ BRIAN
Democracy is a fickle creature. Very well done.
Thanks "A" we all need to pray for the future of America ~ BRIAN
Great write
Thanks TONY we all need to pray for the future of America ~ BRIAN
Yes we do, Trump did win
THis is great! I love the feeling that rings out of this like a bell! The rythmic song of it makes me sway along with it. Enjoyed this! Hope to see more! 😀
Thanks SL ~ pleased you liked it ! I try to post one each day ! BRIAN
If you can still dream but not make dreams your master..
If you can still think for youself and not loose your humanity among all if the propaganda and mind control, you're halfway there.
The hard part is not letting your dreams control you. We consiously know what needs to be done but we live all of our waking life living for someone else..under submission to someone else at work, how youre expected to behavd at home, under the law, then schooling our babies.
If we know what should be done, how do we not let our dreams control us when while we're awake we are so removed from our dreams, our values, our subconscious. Our dreams-our true selves
Thanks KRYSTAL for a very beautiful and reasoned reply. I know (from your poem) that you are facing personal difficulties. If you apply the common sense outlined above I am sure you will come through your own crises ! Still thinking of you and praying for you ~ Your MPS FRIEND ~ BRIAN
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