Bombs Bursting in Air

'The Rockets' Red Glare            7/4/2017

Today I will wear a white hat

And look to the sky

For a few minutes of splendor

More determined than ever

To defend and protect.

Even now we are prisoners

And strangers

Aliens in the land of our fathers

Betrayed

Over and over again. 

Sold out for nothing

And penalized at every turn

Hated for our truth

And butchered

For our beauty.

Bombs will burst in the air

And we will see

All its glory

For those who remember

The forgotten

And the dead.

The black plague rages

And disease spreads

In the dark

All of it on purpose

And all of it planned. 

Now more than ever

See it all unfold

The truth writ large

Everywhere you look.

Sooner than you think

Everything will be exposed

As ever fair weathered friend

Hides in the grass. 

Evil will spend itself

In a last

And desperate gasp

So close

And yet so far. 

Frustrated

At the very last moment

Just before

They sealed our doom.

The good awakened

And no longer blind

Aware of the ugly truth

That can never

Be forgotten. 

They shall all

Expose themselves

In a violent foolish spasm

Spent upon the innocent

And the unaware. 

Let it all fall down

And consume them

Burning away

All their pride

And childish hatred.

Look up

And see it

For we have already won

Every promise kept

The long way around.