Spiked Crown Image
She stands majestically in the sea,
her blind visage etched in
abandoned noble, rainbow ideals
Handcrafted words of beautiful Roman vanity ...
revived, towering graven godly desires
Man-made hypocrisy, Babel copied and stone xeroxed
Preach liberty and freedom,
practice slavery and oppression
A reared idol of falling stars wearing flagging stripes
Spiked crown image standing in the sea,
how diadem crimson deep
flows the buoying waters of democracy faith?
If ever, the gracious words should evaporate:
that all were thus this way created
Into the sands of time, a tilted torch is sinking
Where went the vanished sea that uplifted thee,
whence departed the pride of thine eyes?
A pierced image forever entombed in an oasis mirage
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