America the Beautiful Girl beside the Flag

 

 

America the Beautiful Girl beside the Flag

 

and America goes on

and goes down

in the flames of burning economy

carries its violence across borders to countries, unfamiliar

 

and i, with an economy of words

try to be a poet

and carry a theme across the borders of pages

 

suggest two hearts

can be more familiar

with an onslaught of passion

that rises above skin and bone

in regarded tone

 

as America goes on

prattling tales of yesterday's onset

and journeys toward tomorrow's sunset

 

(with us hand in hand

mind in mind

writing free verse sonnets

of insulated purpose

 

saving ourselves amidst

deluded diluted anarchy)

 

and America goes on

with or without us

yet we sing of red, white and blue

bleeding towards one another's wounds

whiting out the typos caused by others

and feeling a blue expanse between us

both in miles and sadness

 

and America goes on

burning in its greed

and monotonous arrogance

 

 

but the heat is insignificant

because we are the core of the blaze

that reaches

the core of the blaze

that teaches

 

peaceful resistance

in catastrophic harmony

(like two countries)

willing to

join lines

and fill pages

with the power of

poetic settlement

 

wresting the chaos

from within our breasts

 

as America goes on.

 

erin-cilberto

1/13/12

Reviews

[andrew mitchell]

Such truths Jacob sadly we are all pawns to those we elect only to find they don’t stand for what we believe and follow their own agendas. Well written, a joy to read!