December Seventh and the Usa

December Seventh and the U.S.A.
By Franklin Price
12/07/2021

December seventh, forty-one
A day that lives in infamy
Had it not happened, as it did,
Where in the world, would we now be?

Was only four score years ago
We could no longer isolate
Became THE POWER of the earth
With destiny we made a date

Japan and the Axis powers
Forced us, the U.S.A., to fight
They woke up the sleeping giant
And since, we've never slept a night

For us the war began that day
To end, at last, in forty-five
Veterans, of it, still among us
Aging, a hundred, but alive

Are they proud of where we've traveled
Since the atomic bomb was dropped.
Or do they realize, as I,
That World War Two has never stopped?

We helped the whole world to rebuild
Could not retreat from all the fight
Communism now our enemy
It did not happen overnight

In the war they were our allies
Defending all against the foe
When the Axis was defeated
Became the enemy we know

Policing actions, came and went
Korean war, and Vietnam 
The Cold War, so called, ended
We did not really give damn

Had to meddle in the Middle East
Bringing terror to our lives
Putin's Russia and Red China
Are both where the war still thrives

May not yet be full on combat
But the threat is in the way
Why can't we all just get along
In the World we're in today?

Can't we sit down at the table
And listen to the other side?
Our blue, third planet, from the sun 
Is the only place to ride.

THE POWER on the planet Earth
Is still the good old U.S.A.
But it's slipping exponentially 
And will soon be gone away

We're losing sight of who we are
Of who our founders said we'd be
We the people, are the government
Not those in Washington, we see.

Don't have our interests in their hearts
They'll take our freedoms all away
They'll defeat us from the inside
That's what I see for us today

It's not over 'til it's over
We can fight until it's done
We can help or we can hinder
To see again a rising sun

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