This Is My Country
Gina Piro
Thirteen Stripes...
Odd, yet beautiful,
Simple, but powerful.
Though they have spirits of their own, they are limited;
Dancing only when the wind allows.
They, too, gaze at the stars in wonder and awe,
Longingly as generations past,
Heartily as generations present,
Hopefully as those to follow...
But only if the wind allows.
Thirteen million dead
In the name of the stripes.
But they, too, may dance
And encourage the living to join them
In the everlasting swaying of the thirteen stripes...
But only if the wind allows.
Montage, May 2017 20