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A Child's  Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag

Monday, March 13, 2006

When I was just a small lad

I looked up so proud,

I saw the Stars and Stripes

And I recited out loud!

I pledged allegiance

My young voice cried,

To the United State of America

And to the freedom for which -

So many have died!

I pledged allegiance

To the Republic for which it stands,

To the one nation under God

I folded my hands!

As I recited my pledge

To the indivisible country,

I whispered a little prayer

That really seemed -

Very important to me!

I was pledging to a country

That promised liberty and justice for all,

Not just for a few

No! Really, really -

They meant it for all!

So everyone can be free

We go to the polls and vote,

Everyone has a voice

We proudly gloat!

No one is supposed to be left out

We should all have a say,

But I find that is not always true

I just found that out -

Just the other day!

I found that some of the meanings

Of the pledge have changed you see

They no longer seem to mean

The same things -

That they first meant to me!

I Recently read that an Iraqi

General had died,

Around his face an American sleeping

Bag had been tied!

An American military officer

Who also recited the pledge right along,

Sat on the general's chest

Until all of his air was gone!

I don’t think it was

Was the right thing for him to do.

And I find myself wondering

If he thought he was doing it -

Doing it for me and for you!

I wonder which clause of the Pledge

He thought the General's death would uphold,

Was it an act under God

Or was it liberty and justice -

For all to behold!

I read that yet more

Of our soldiers across the sea,

Were fighting in Afghanistan

They claimed they were fighting -

Fighting for you and for me!

But I never recall

Casting a vote to tell,

Those soldiers that they could murder

A prisoner in a jail cell!

They went into his cell

To question him you see,

And while they were there

They beat him -

Unmercifully!

When they came back

Some time later that day,

The found that the man was dead

They really felt -

Like they had earned their pay!

When their Commander was asked

If these murderers would go to jail,

The prisoner could have died of natural causes

That was his tale!

So all of this makes  me

Makes me wonder some how,

How did our pledge change

Why are we the way -

The way we are now!

Didn’t enough of us go

Go to the polls and vote,

Maybe too many of us just sat

Just sat at home and gloat!

Or did we all decide

That our pledge should permanently change,

The whole Constitution

We should conveniently rearrange!

If we are truthfully a noble nation

A nation under God,

Can we really give these murders

An approving  nod!

If our pledge does mean

Mean anything to us,

Openly these murders

Our country should discuss!

If we don’t believe in liberty and justice for all

As the Pledge does say

Then let's start teaching our children

The new words today!

Liberty and Justice the new words might be

God lets us kill

If public homage -

They don’t pay to me!

I write this anonymous Poem

Anonymously you see,

For I now fear that my Government

Might do the same thing -

to me!

© AGB, 2006

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