O, America! - Bruce Moody

[Larry Robinson]

O, America! 
 
O, America, the blood you are bleeding is oil.
 
Where is the old red gone
that once infused your flag?
Where is the courage for honesty –
that blue handed out once like a dancer
so generously?
 
Where is white? Where is the place where color
meant nothing?
 
O, America, aren’t you ashamed
to place a gun where courage should be?
 
Aren’t you lost in the insubstantial lies of futures
eaten like vegetables from a dump!
 
And underneath your skin, are you not still –
like the dove and the wolf
and the spider and the oat –
only human too! And fairly! Fairly!
 
Spend some heart this way.
Bend with the wind that holds the flag together in the air
for all to see,
not just some.
 
On this field of promise
make again the palm held out
upon which each of us arrived.
 
Grant us communion, flag.
Give us a whole.
Give us ourselves together once again
in quality. 

Our stars.
 
	- Bruce Moody
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