Independence Day
by ABE
In the year of 1776
That paper was decreed -
They were tired of oppression
And wanted to be freed
They wrote a Declaration
So the whole world would see -
This was, "the home of the brave
And the land of the free"
They signed that piece of parchment
The leaders of this land -
Knowing, divided they would fall
But, together they could stand
A new world lay before them
Untamed from shore to shore -
They swore the would protect it
If it meant going to war
Battles have been fought -
And many lives have been lost -
So sad something so basic
Has such a high, high cost
'Seems freedom is a luxury
There's some would bind us all -
Like then, together, we can stand
But divided, we will fall
More than two hundred years
Have past by since that day
That each of us celebrate
In our own different way
We should be proud and thankful
Pay our share of the cost -
Not take freedom for granted
For it easily could be lost
The original draft of the Declaration was written by Thomas Jefferson from 11 June 1776 to 28 June 1776. It was finalized and approved by the Congress and printed on the evening of July 4th.
The original document was signed by only John Hancock as President of the Congress and Charles Thompson, as the Secretary of the Congress. Other signatories were added beginning in August and weren't completed for several months.
Declaration Of Independence
Alone in the night,
gazing at the beauty,
of a celestial masterpiece,
yet untouched,
by the cover of cloud,
an unrelenting silence,
is interrupted,
by the insistent ticking,
of an old grandfather clock in the parlor,
a candle with a dual wick,
rests on a table,
made of knotty pine,
roughly chiselled,
to add a rustic touch,
accentuating a floor of polished oak,
provides my only light
I sit watching shadows,
flickering across plaster walls,
mimic eerie phantoms,
slithering throughout the room,
refusing to take recognizable shape,
cause unwanted distraction
The work before me suffers,
in stark contrast,
pitifully begs,
text be laid,
to cover the nudity,
of the page before me
The accomplishments of my life,
pale in contrast,
what keeps me awake this night,
the plight of a nation,
will rest on the passion of my words,
my friends and patriots,
rely on a text,
that will take them from anarchy,
to democracy
Shadows appearing to take shape,
play tricks upon my vision,
reveal a sight,
resembling a picture,
of a united,
uniformly defined crowd,
cheering and waving as one voice,
one sound
Suddenly it becomes clear,
the page before me,
fills with pronouncement,
my chest swells with pride,
what's written this night,
becomes page after page,
until,
finally,
to carry a nation,
desiring riddance,
a Declaration Of Independence
An American Soldier
by Mary Hamrick
There is no final solution for wretched man,
only a quest for good fellows to defy them.
I am a revolutionary of true colors
carrying the weight of the world
in my immigrant red, white, and blue hands.
Always puckering for a kiss of democracy
I lay back and fall easily in love
with my terrain.
I know no war is an easy war
but I am aware that within its frenzy of gloom
it reanimates the speechless.
War,
a place where madness in the eye of a flower seems
normal
and at the end of the stain of the day the beauty of
being
is forever gone to a place where whimpering
willowy men and women are soon crushed by
dangerous things in the crosscurrents of the air, then
crucified.
How can we ignore misery
and deepen the darkness
by laying back like reclining nudes
with faraway eyes? No grace, no grit, no honor.
For me it is not so simple.
My eyes, like distant beacons,
shield the will-less on their borders
and as the gray gulf pulls us close to them
we stand as one, waist-deep in lumps of earth wielding
our orange tambourines
and pray the goal of glory
becomes as visible and as dominant
as the force of prairie lightning.
I am a soldier, your sweet protector
(where old terrors mingle) creeping on until their
undoing.
Sign of life,
as I carry the world piece by piece.
HAPPY INDEPENDANCE DAY & GOD BLESSED THE USA & GOD BLESSED OUR SOLDIERS AND GOD BLESSED YOU ALL:)
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God Bless The USA - Lee Greenwood
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