Who Am I?

    Who Am I?

People

Of a certain age 

And disposition

Will remember when

Charles de Gaulle said, in

                    the wake 

    of a terrible

    world war:

“I am France,” daring

To embody his nation

In himself, and speak

For it.  Hey -

That was his feeling.

And listen to this

If you thought that

        was something

Extraordinary:

I Am the Father

Of my country.

It is my baby.

And I will not

Let anybody 

         treat it

    in the way

That they have been
Heretofore.

                  That

Is an order

From on high - 

                     higher

Than we humans

               have ever

Gone before.

             And now

Watch us soar.

Individually.

And collectively.

With liberty

And justice

For all

As this country
Leads the way
                into
   The New.