America, Sweet America

On Easter Weekend 2020, written for a dear, dear friend named "The United States of America" and a concept named "freedom" we should always defend.

You were born upon liberty's foundation

Where searching souls could find liberation

A plan to establish a freedom forever here

Basic citizen rights that could never disappear

Inalienable, untouched – not granted by some king or queen

But residing within a divinity presence unseen

No army or politician could rape, pillage or plunder

No rogue or overreaching government could tear you asunder

Everyone in service would pledge to protect your Lady's light

Guarding against all foes – foreign and domestic – for our human right

In America, sweet America

America, sweet America

Dreams, hope and opportunity carried the seed of anticipation

For all forms of slavery, there could come emancipation

For the free and the brave, we would secure your holy home

Now common individuals, every day, had a place to call their own

To be fully alive would mean joining in a unified song

Businesses could thrive for those who worked hard and long

Our abundance was ours to keep, without any outside manipulations

Beyond the cruel rule or the strangulation of regulations

Founders risked life, limb, fortune and a sacred honor in the end

Everyone now tasked with a duty to preserve, protect and defend …

America, sweet America

America, sweet America

Yes, it does take everyone's patriotic participation

And the vote and the voice of broad consideration

Everyone living under "natural law" – one unifying devotion

The Republic, and the flag for which it stands, bigger than anyone we vote in

But like high school cliques, special interests groups have played their hands unilateral

Tossing carelessly onto the heap all the damage collateral

Needing to chip away at what they would call just a piece of paper

They've abused and used you in one giant sinister caper

In 1913, a temporary tax for war, at 3 percent, never higher

This absurd tax on income – our hard-earned dollars stolen by the liar

The unaccountable – FBI, CIA, NSA, DOJ and the handpicked elite

Bohemians, Bilderberg, Trilateral, Federal Reserve – all in opulent secret retreat

In 63, a president with plans to splinter the CIA into the winds

Would never see his country, his nation, nor his children again

 

We all hurt for America, sweet America

America, sweet America

The dark force runs its course to derail all that is free

Spies without eyes monitor our moves and our privacy

A military industrial complex builds and destroys nation lands

Drones splatter the brain matter and blood, left on our hands

GMOs and fluoride in the food supply, reportedly for our health

Classified, redacted, undercover – operations are stoic and stealth

Tumbling towers blew open the door for a patriot’s desperate act

In the name of protection and security, the freedoms won’t be coming back

Wars without Congress permission or approval went right ahead

Whistleblowers of truth wind up imprisoned, tucked away or dead

Big pharma’s vaccination schedules are forced upon the parent and child

Spirits, embracing a freedom of choice, no longer free and wild

The Top 10 Amendments attacked by snipers with deadly aim

Curbing free speech because of hurt feelings and someone to blame

Silencing Alex, Milo, Laura and all those dreadful dissenting voices

No worries … you’ll just be next, when we’ll no longer have the choices

Gun owners must be loners who don’t really need that rifle

Those wanting to protect themselves from tyrants should simply sshhhh … stifle

Crocodile tears and children fears sell us an agenda to disarm

DUI stops, by curious cops, give us seizures that will do harm

Executive orders, protecting other borders, not one regime change success

College boys – under mere accusation – banished without due process

New voting systems, graduating Electoral College – that must be for the best

Who cares about those in Wyoming, Montana, Tennessee and the rest

Now we position politics and politicians in front-row, big-screen view

Making flashy Hollywood celebrities more important than you

Burgermeister Meisterburger now gloriously leads the way

House arrest is everyone’s test, we must now be quiet and stay   

Now opposing voices and choices the elites definitely resent 
Social Media giants - they silence the words of dissent

Pushing us to our limits, pulling on the public's last straw

Breaking our sinking spirits, defaming Constitutional law

Goodbye America, sweet America

America, sweet America

So what will it take and how far can they push?

Before we come out from hiding behind the burning bush

Sweet America – your glory we were to honorably protect

Against the slightest foe, every John Doe, the least suspicious suspect

Our power is as fragile as an invisible commitment and pledge

We have now been backed up, looking down, at the top of the highest ledge

The battleground is now, the enemy is here, we have finally met

The frog that would spring out of a heated pot, now slowly boils to death

We’ve solemnly given our power away; we’ve let you down again

Once more, we must risk our sacred honor to get back to where we’ve been

We’ve gone from “give me liberty or give me death” to “better safe than sorry”

We've purchased temporary safety while gazing into a dark night – starry, starry

The lies should be no surprise – perhaps the leaders forgot their one true job

To subjugate themselves and protect the rights inherent, indivisible under God

And so we overcome viruses – our unconscious pollution – we rise in revolution 

We reclaim what is born upon liberty’s foundation … a nation's Constitution

Bring back Locke, Hamilton, Jefferson, Franklin, Adams – architects with a guiding hand

As we, once again, put a stake in the ground and take a mighty stand

For you … America, sweet America

America, sweet America

America, sweet America 

James Anthony Ellis can be reached at www.LegacyProductions.org, but only for good tidings.