On The Way

The Way

I faced you,
Dark Force
As Leonidas
At the Battle
Of Thermopylae
         and again
As Charles Martel
At the Battle
Of Tours;
         and again
On Iwo Jima
And at Saigon;
                     I
Am Freeman
And I will prevail
                 in
      the end.

So call off your
      ever-lustful
Dogs of War:
         those days
         are over.
         The Light
         wins out
          at
  The End

          of
The Play.
That's just
 The Way
      it is
    written.

And to Communist China
        In our day
            I say:
      Remember
The Flying Tigers.
And don't dishonor
   your ancestors

         as we
      move into
      The New
       together.

          East
      and West
            as
 
           One.

          Here
    at the end of

       The Play.