On Fanfare For the Common Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVB0B1_Ts
Aaron Copeland's "Fanfare for the Common Man"
Drums play
ears listen
Visions display
eyes glisten.
The quiet burns
as freedom yearns.
Trumpeters announce
man's every ounce.
Distant thunder sounds
love should abound.
Embrace the words, the message
of life's echo, its solitary vestige.
Here we live and proudly stand
the everyday un-common man
Struggling to live well from birth
before we leave this hallowed earth.
In looking back who we are, what will we see
the good people we struggled so hard to be?
What will or should be mankind's epitaph
as God separates us from the weed and chaff?
In the end, money, prestige and power will be undone
and individual lives forgotten in the rising and setting sun.
Yet in the shadowed past something might remain
purpose and presence in release of these chains.
Play soft and loud the song to be unsung
and silence the words and lies of tongues.
We are people born once to being honest and sincere
where are we now from promises - far off or closely near?
Sound the instruments and play the song
man has made his mark loud and strong
Last farewells may quickly come
as self centered dreams succumb.
In his final and departing absence
comes return of nature's balance.
In the end
we are simply men.
Copyright © DM Babbit | Year Posted 2016
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