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The light,
by JASMIN HORST E. P. SEILER → (All Poetry by JASMIN HORST E. P. SEILER)
Wednesday, February 1, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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Is there some sane people left on either side?

 

 

What did she hold this symbol?

A beautiful sculpture from France,

As a gift in New York’s harbour,

Like the bell of liberty forever it would toll,

 

In the hearts of millions,

From home, and all across the world,

A beacon of hope,

While of oppressed where billions,

 

It seems changed, the light,

Less bright, and comforting,’

To those still wandering in the dark,

It was a glorious sight,

 

Hiding is this glorious shine,

Covered by a dark halo,

It can’t be seen, by those oppressed,

But yet, there was a time,

 

Is there another place like this?

That was ever known,

Now the statue frowns

She lost her virgin bliss,

 

The land of the brave and free,

Heroes where they, once upon a time,

Scorched the earth of tyrants then,

For the land of liberty,

 

Now it’s only like the other,

It’s better red than dead,

So it seems to me,

Why in heavens name then bother,

 

You made the choice dear folk,

It says from others you had help;

Be that as it were,

You broke the egg, the yolk,

 

But so many, so many, of sorts,

A multitude of all,

The rah, rah, rah, the speeches,

Their sanity then did aboard,

 

And now, the judges of the term,

Their own two cents express,

When they the laws address,

Will then, the liberties in truth they germ?

 

In wisdom and in trust, a writ an accord,

Freedom from all these things oppressed,

Thousands came to your shores, and millions,

Was it only for a sport?

 

Have you not relations, there in lands oppressed,

Like children they hide from the dark,

Underneath a blanket, cover,

Of that light, they were possessed,

 

Is it as is said, I am ok jack,

I am now American, forget about the past,

I wonder if those, of freedom wrote the constitution,

Not give those all a blast,

 

Is it not written, we hold,,,,,

Hand over our hearts,

God with us,

Will we be brave and bold?©31/01/2017

 


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 Reviews of "The light,"
Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on February 3, 2017

compelling, thought provoking work

Never Stop Writing!
m

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on February 1, 2017
A stark appraisal of the state we have elected ourselves to. May we understand what we have done in reaching this point. We must always be wary of creeping trends towards the values that this country was built on and stands for.

Unfortunately, this country of 350 million or so would be totally capable of taking in the billions that would wish to live here. So, we are tending to take in the privileged of the world: the rich, families of the already here, and those of intelligence seeking higher education. We are conveniently forgetting that so many of our ancestors left oppressive rulers with nothing but the clothes on their backs and booked steerage on ships to a land where opportunity seemed endless. We now want to cast off refugees. We have no good jobs to offer to anyone without special skills. We are fleeing our own country in record numbers to countries where our money gets us more for less.

In other words, we need to do some introspection before we just use knee-jerk decrees and restrictive laws to make our country "again" what it never really was.

Ron


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