Giving Space To The Inner Poet

  The plinth, when all is lost The distinction between surviving and suicide in the mist of deep depression Endeavor and neglect Remaining vanquished or brushing off the dust of defeat What else can there be? A burgeoning nation in search  Pervasive feuds, sufferings endured When all seem worthless Living in hope Some dying in expectation as days run into weeks Weeks into months Months into years Outliving over decades, indignity tolerable The pilgrims of old Persevere the holocaust Though an end not sighted, in the smokescreen of life Trusting that someday, the tides will turn The dark gloomy clouds will lift Night will give way to day The sun emerging in its splendor as the dark sky recedes For in the absence of hope What will mankind have? Surely there should be something to live for To strive for To believe in To die for To stand for In the midst of turbulent cascading events  Hope is all

A fine morning in appearance Until the rain interrupted it rudely as it fell Lost control on the wet asphalt Skidding began, in earnest it spun Hit the median concrete Spun some more How many times is lost Time seemed to stop The beating heart The adrenaline of fear Life flashing before one's eyes The near death experience then the final smash as it came to a stop Never to move again  Neither forwards or backwards Engine revving, nothing happening The turmoil is over

It birthed a nation this day Freeing it from bondage, as it held its own bondsmen All men created equal under God, whilst slaves remained These brilliant men Bold proclamations they made  Fear for their act not lost A treasonous act perceived  A crown in dissent A sacrifice in the making Targets on their backs As in secret they met To draft a constitution to govern so fragile a union Assiduous they worked A new nation to create as one nation under God A nation of aliens Each their ideals they chart Visionaries they were As far ahead of their time united mainland they sought Some they seized from the natives that were, others they bought In the vision of one huge continent as one a nation Years later EU to note, but that ship already sailed A fragile unity it has Overtaken by a country so new by anyone’s standards Celebrate this day and its founding fathers append For this nation is the greatest on earth so far Created by the most brilliant minds of the time