Lament for Liberty

Lament for Liberty
14 July 2020

Liberty, I remember you well

When I was a girl in this land

Freedom to go as we pleased

You took us by the hand

We played outside and went to school

To God we bent our knees

We dreamed of what we would become

As grownups, as we pleased

To open a business or to pursue our dreams

And nothing stand in the way

We stood united, proud and undivided

And had freedom in what to say

In our chest, you paved the way

For innovation and design

In our hearts, our minds, and souls

We knew the way divine

With freedom we knew we could go

As far as we should will

And marching shoulder to shoulder

We advanced up every hill

Our teams – the best –

we proved it year by year

our open streets and flourishing businesses

we were safe from fear

what has happened that we have let

our land now slide away?

Where once stood men,

Girls now blaze a violent way

With purple hair and screaming fists

They taunt those who made them free

The men like girls and girls like men

Who mock your liberty

They use the freedom given them

To burn this to the ground

And good men stand back and watch it happen,

With not a fight, nor even a sound

The Witch declares your freedoms gone

You’re muzzled and bow your knees

And crawl along empty grocery store shelves

Without care for liberty

You slink along inside your homes

Afraid to go outside

Small, pathetic creatures,

Full of Netflix in our eyes

They told us to be afraid,

And so afraid we are

That we cannot drive somewhere

A masked lone person in a car

The air is scary, and people worse

We cannot get too near

A hug will kill us, six feet will save us

Conditioning perpetual in our ears

What kind of life are you living?

What could you stand to gain?

Is this a life you want to live?

Are we really sane?

“There are some lines I will not cross,”

You say as you muzzle your face,

Your gloved hand bleaching groceries

Seems normal, not insanity or disgrace

The men who founded this country

Are rolling over in their graves

This land they fought so hard to gain

Is being willingly turned to slaves

Women and children are looking up

To find someone to lead

None are there that can be found

We are pitiful, indeed

So turn it over to the powers that be

Who test your shackled strength

The slippery slope moves very quickly

Who knows how far its length

We shall care when it’s too late

And we’ve lost all liberty

Lament aloud, and say a prayer

for the once great land of the brave and free