Another Bop

Raise the Flag

As the flag goes by in parades or at games,
few remove their hats
or place their hands over their hearts.
Some continue chatting.
Many forget, but some remember
the sacrifices made for that flag to fly.

Raise the flag in declaration of freedom and equality.

Our liberties have led us to argue
about whether we can even mention God in public.
Ironically, in freedom of expression, activists burn the flag.
Children may learn the thirteen stripes correspond to
the original colonies and the stars stand for states,
but not about them symbolizing the pursuit of God,
or that the colors, red, white and blue, represent virtues:
bravery and stamina, purity and innocence, justice and resolve.

Raise the flag in declaration of freedom and equality.

Let us truly pledge allegiance, loyalty, commitment
to the flag, Old Glory, the red, white, and blue,
and to the republic, nation, democracy
under God, the creator of the universe,
indivisible, unified, cohesive, inseparable,
with liberty, freedom, justice and fairness for all.

Raise the flag in declaration of freedom and equality.