What Is a Nation
What Is A Nation
Who am I to crown myself more high
than a nation that differs from I
in which by chance or by fate I was bred;
that I may declare the lives of our nation
pardoned from death if my own be set to
scale against a creed I am not;
that I may judge the hue of any complexion or
the contour of any being
as perfectly imperfect as I am
myself?
And who am I to silence my tongue against
words spun by evil and remain mute as
they create spite towards every and all other nations?
If I be such a soul, I cry for deliverance.
And what is a nation but a division of earth
that at any moment may sever and rearrange
itself?
And what is a nation if all humanity thrive
under one veil of sky and be firm upon one
mass of earth?
What is a nation if we are of Him and He
is a God of one in a single heaven?
And if He be in me, then I be of you
and joyously welcome ALL nations into the center
of my being.
What is a nation?
What is a nation child?
A nation is a union, for we are all pieces of a whole;
one nation, under God.
Copyright © Almney King | Year Posted 2012
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