Now the Fifth of July
(in the USA and everywhere that has the day)
Now it matters
The purpose of the fireworks
And picnics
After the celebration
And we hope the
Cleaning up
The life begins
That matters
Because it’s every day
It might not have ribbons floating
Over
Celebrations
It might not afford
Much by way of
Worldly excitement
Being
You know
Ordinary
But here it is
And here’s the test
Which is all right
Because
It’s all the same
We fail to live
We fail
After all
We choose to live
And bless the every day
We have a chance for
A nation
And a world
C L Couch
Photo by Norbert Braun on Unsplash
Destiny of Manifests
How we can disperse all hope
Or think we should
Why we think we are the best when,
Point by point, we’re not
Several are more literate, many
More able with math
Many with armed forces
That train and guard more than
They have to fight
May peace prevail, the pole proclaims
In many languages
What language do we use
When talking with our neighbors
May implies condition and will
What do we condition
What do we will
It is a wonderful statue
So many monuments are
And nearly all espouse a cause
With some nobility
I can drive down to Devil’s Den, now
A reminder of
The awful cost of slaying a
Brother in the split of war
And what war does not take a sibling
What part of Earth is not destroyed
What town, what hold for families
Is gone from the roster
Of the world
We all are charged to keep
Independence Day is on the way
Many nations have one
They speak to freedom
Of the mind, the will
The charge to make the planet whole
Especially
When we ruin something of it
C L Couch
image
assembling the Statue of Liberty in Paris
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