"Indivisible"

By Anna Greenleaf

Anna Greenleaf is a senior Virginia Wesleyan University student. During her four years at VWU she studied chemistry and environmental sciences. She credits the Batten Honors College with her continued interest in the humanities.

To your nation be true–

The colors red, white, and blue

Our soldiers we commend

Our protestors we apprehend

Our politicians pretend

To be our friends

When they do nothing but lie

While people bleed and die

The red in our flag is blood

Yet it means more dragged through the mud

The white is pure, innocent

While our children hide, vigilant

To our children, school is lethal

Education, in a state of upheaval

The kids have no choice but to fight in the military–

Forced into the mines, trapped like canaries

Blue is too persevere

But look what we did to the frontier

Maybe someone should interfere,

But who?

Most shed but a single tear–

That’s blue.

Thirteen stripes for the colonies,

Not for company monopolies

The rich and their brigs

Control us through their pigs

Millions incarcerated without a vote,

What is the antidote

For the spreading disease– 

Is it like this overseas?

We create a flag for unity like Betsy Ross,

A branch to climb across

This great divide,

Just pray we don’t backslide

A country with numerous flaws

Filled with contradictory laws

Preaching doomsayers we scorn

But this hell must have been born

From our pursuit to end peace

Will this ailment ever cease?

Or will the cycle go on?

But the sun sets before dawn

We have to have hope

And not get out the rope

To hang this nation

For fear of stagnation

We must fight together and not each other

All this to say, “Do your part and pray”