Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Musings About the Confederate Flag

Musings About the Confederate Flag

By Elton Camp

When the Confederate flag Joe saw
He gazed at it, apparently in awe

What is going through his mind
Is he honoring the days behind?

Or the future is he facing
Not a sordid past embracing?

What he’s thinking, none can know
His facial expression doesn’t show

Nostalgia for a past few did share?
A gracious land of plenty was rare

Mint juleps in a white hand
While slaves farm the land

Were his ancestors like mine
Dirt poor, not a life so fine?

No mansion with pillars of white
Or parties in which to delight

By slaves they weren’t tended
Until the War, it all upended

Is it time, at last, to put away
A divisive symbol of another day?

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Rev. Gerald Dillenbeck September 4, 2017 at 2:23 PM Probably the most balanced, thoughtful, and critical discussion I have seen. Elton Camp September 4, 2017 at 7:13 PM Thank you. I wrote this quite a long time back before all this new controversy. Had forgotten about it. Thanks for finding it.