A WORD TO THE WISE

A WORD TO THE WISE

We didn't fight a War of Independence

So that you lot

Could throw away all our hard-earned gains for you,

                in the way 

       of Liberty

And such like that.

As has been said:

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; 

it is  dearness only that gives every thing its value.

Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods;

And it would be strange indeed

If so celestial an article as freedom

Should not be highly rated." 

      (Thomas Paine, The American Crisis)

America is like the Roadrunner.  

                        it has run off

The cliff, and nothing is holding it up 

                  but its failure

To look down, and see

                       the reality 

Of its position.  At which point of awareness -  

Down it goes.

And now -
        true to form -
 Down we go

…as I take over

The helm of my ship of state now, 

With the American eagle at the bow;

                 the New Jerusalem 

Of and in the temporal world.

With a new flag to be unfurled

At the stern; the Good Ship America

Leading the way

Into the New Era

For all of Humanity

Away from the shoals of Despond  

When the people have become too enamored 

Of the means to the end, 

         having lost contact with 

     and focus on 

The end itself.  

Which is reunification with their Creator.

Hold on.

          Here

We go

With the tide.

          It is going to be

An amazing ride.