Donald Trump Hugging the American Flag

Courtesy the Washington Post

Once a Great Nation

Once a great notion,

sailed across the ocean,

out in wilderness with ambition,

taken freely for possession.

A monumental lesson,

in territorial aggression,

as religious oppression,

displaced nomadic heathen.

A better mousetrap,

garnered from the bootstrap,

created a consuming pack rat,

on heavy industrial fat.

A dynamo to envy,

get-rich-quick on a bevy,

of resource laden heavy,

creating Ford and Chevy.

Fought to end slavery,

but not the inherent knavery,

that made the wealthy unsavory,

by their self-proclaimed superiority.

In the land of the free,

for some, just not to be,

injustice so easy to see,

but so easy, too, to disagree.

For a great nation to continue to grow,

it must learn and bend with the flow.

The light of liberty must continue to glow,

for especially, the downtrodden, to show.

Copyright 2019 © Ronald W. Hull

8/29/19

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