Defiant
My flag is not black n white with a blue streak
My flag is not a field of white stars n scars of machine guns
My flag is not the fat face of a demagogue
Orange, pale, like a bandit in the night, a loon!
It flutters in the breeze, proud
My flag may be tattered or torn
Sitting in the rain
Sun bleach or worn, but...
My flag shines bright
Its stars are still as brilliant as any future
Blue n white as Heaven on high
Crimson the blood of a nation, bold!
It flies high above this fleeting earth
My flag flies bright red, white, and blue
The white lines of integrity, the crimson of humanity
Sapphire blue of understanding and humility
My flag is not a symbol of some Conman
A false messiah, a demagogue
My banner lies on the coffins of The Brave
The Bold, The Soldiers, The 1st Responders
From wars, foreign and domestic
Drenched in the tears of heaven
The pain of the loss, at what cost?
For the soul of my nation is not the raving of the delusional
My flag, despite its tatters and warm edges from the fight
Over what is right and wrong,
Flies still high in the dawns morning sky
My flag lies not in a puddle
In a ruined city of the meek, the
Brainwashed, the fools, the sycophants
My flag covers the brave and those of diversity,
The free, the forgotten, and abused
AND misbegotten.
My flag is not black and white and blue with a streak.
It doesn’t fly over a demagogue, or covered with machine guns
Painted faces profane, and insane...
Bars, social whores, and the ill-spent wealth of the rich inflame...
My flag flies over this land
A land true and free even if it's not perfect
And neither are we
My flag flies above this shining shore
As a beacon in the night
The night of ignorance and blight
For others who are tattered and torn
For brothers, n sisters not yet born
For those who are far from these shores
My flag stays true
My flag flies over his land of the brave
This land of inequity
This land of diversity
This land of fragility
However, what may be
It flies over the free and the brave,
So all can see by dawn's early light
So proudly we hail
I see you stand by my flag
Never it droop,
Don't let it fail, my brother
It, nay! We shall always prevail
My flag flies in twilight’s last gleaming
My flag stands true, it stands free. Defiant...
I'll be damned if you don't like it..
Copyright © Poet Tellaferro | Year Posted 2023
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