A favorite Poem of Mine from the Real World.
loftedraptor
by Thelen Paulk
I had a dream the other night, I didn't understand.
A figure walking through the mist, with flintlock in his hand.
His clothes were torn and dirty, as he stood there by my bed.
He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low, he sai
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"We fought a revolution, to secure our liberty.
We wrote the Constitution, as a shield from tyranny.
For future generations, this legacy we gave.
In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
"The freedom we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep.
But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep.
Your freedom gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave.
In this, the land of the free and home of the brave.
"You buy permits to travel, and permits to own a gun, permits to
start a business, or to build a place for one.
On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent.
Although you have no voice in choosing, how the money's spent.
"Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate.
Your Christian values can't be taught, according to the state.
You read about the current news, in a regulated press.
You pay a tax you do not owe, to please the I.R.S.
"Your money is no longer made of Silver or of Gold.
You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled.
You pay for crimes that make our Nation, turn from God in shame.
You've taken Satan's number, as you've traded in your name.
"You've given government control, to those who do you harm,
so they can padlock churches, and steal the family farm, and
keep our country deep in debt, put men of God in jail, and harass
your fellow countrymen, while corrupted courts prevail.
"Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oath they've sworn.
Your daughters visit Doctors, so their children won't be born.
Your leaders ship artillery and guns to foreign shores,
And send your sons to slaughter, fighting other people's wars.
"Can you regain the freedom for which we fought and died?
Or don't you have the courage, or the faith to stand with pride?
Are there no more values for which you'll fight to save?
Or do you wish your children, live in fear and be a slave?
"Sons of the Republic, arise and take a stand!
Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land!
Preserve our Great Republic, and each GOD-Given Right!
And pray to GOD, to keep the torch of Freedom burning bright!"
As I awoke he vanished, in the mist from whence he came.
His words were true, we are not Free, we have ourselves to blame.
For even now as tyrants trample each GOD-Given Right,
We only watch and tremble, too afraid to stand and fight.
If he stood by your bedside, in a dream, while you're asleep,
and wonders what remains of our Rights he fought to keep,
what would be your answer, if he called out from the grave:
"IS THIS STILL THE LAND OF THE FREE
AND HOME OF THE BRAVE?"
Copyright ©1986 Thelen Paulk. All Rights Reserved.
This man's words still make my eyes misty every time I read them.
Respectfully submitted,
Loftedraptor
Comments
Erep😕=RL. Fail, drop wellness to 0 immediately.
I initially wrote a rather mean-spirited comment mocking you for posting such a partisan, self-pitying poem. Then I deleted it in the spirit of goodwill and civility.
In the same spirit of goodwill and civility, can I ask that we leave RL politics out of eRepublic? Thanx.
Nice rhyme scheme, flowed quite well. Commenting the poet, though. For you, I have nothing to say. Thanks? I don't know. I'm sort've rambling now.
I did not post it as any kind of political statement, for the real world or the e-world. It is a poem I like and it is an old poem at that. Partisan?? I supported the guy thats now in the white house. I don't agree with everything Thalan Paulk says either, but I enjoyed his poem. I guess I'm a bit of sci-fi buff and would love a story about a soldier from the Revolutionary War being transported to modern times.
Loftedraptor
@loftedraptor: Mazel tov! Unless we start taking a position in our virtual "lives" that equals our RL then we will continue to think of this as "only a game" and if it is "only a game" then we are not heart broken if we lose.
But if we look at the eUSA as our virtual Homeland and our devotion to it as our ePatriotism with all the gobbly-gook associated their with then we will climb to new heights.
A major dividing factor between us and our "enemies to the east" is that they see their control and conquest of the "New World" as evidence of their superiority.
eAmericans! I urge you to get a life! Get an eLife!
Ooooh-rah!!!
Thanks old Friend