Not So Much

Not so much this week.
Owing to the fact of me being sick.
yuck
Just a head cold,
that started to settle into a chest cold.
It didn’t,
but I spent my week
utterly drained.
And not writing so much.
So, no dazzling blog this week.

I will, however, give tribute and honor
to our Great Nation,

Happy Birthday
to the U.S. of A.
Two hundred and thirty-eight years young.
The the land of the free
and
home of the brave.

I don’t guess we can have any idea
what it was like to live under a controlling monarch,
with no rights, no recourse.
However twisted and contorted and abused our nation is today,
we still have our rights, however shredded or thin they may be.
We don’t know what these men and women escaped from.
We cannot imagine the sense of freedom they felt.
And we cannot know the depth of the words they penned,
in poem, hymn, constitution, declaration.
We can, however, take their words and keep them,
know them and own them.
We can preserve our great nation.