To the Founding Fathers: Poems About Being an American
Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2011
by Nicholas Gordon
http://www.poemsforfree.com
TO THE FOUNDING FATHERS
Your light still lingers in our distant morning,
A star that we perceive across the void.
We chart our passage by your words, still burning
Long after your bright core has been destroyed.
No longer do we speak of "natural" rights,
Nor can we think that Reason guides our will.
We've been through far too many gruesome nights
To hope we have reduced our lust to kill.
Yet hope remains the engine of our fire,
Hope that someday all of us will be
Happy in the least that we require:
Well-fed, well-housed, safe, secure, and free.
This dream we still pursue. Though darkness come,
Your wisdom, hope, and courage through us run.
I WISH THERE WERE A WASHINGTON
I wish there were a Washington
For every failed state,
A Jefferson or Madison
To guide them through the gate.
I wish there were a Lincoln
For those now ripped apart,
A Roosevelt or Kennedy
For those that have no heart.
I wish each had the fortune
With which we have been blessed,
And found in their own founders
Fit heroes for the quest.
I wish, I wish, I wish, I wish,
But such things none can will.
One can only plant the seeds
And shape the soil well.
JUST THINK OF HOW IT WAS THAT HOT JULY
Just think of how it was that hot July
Under threat of being hanged for treason.
Let yourself have faith enough to die,
Yet let that faith be in the power of reason.
Feel the heady fear of rash rebellion,
Of chaos, blood, death, vengeance, mayhem, blight.
Unleash with noble words that ancient hellion
Reigning cruelly over years of night.
They turned out to be right, those bold, brave men.
However, think what terrors faced them then.
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