I Plege Allegiance
I pledge allegiance to love even as
sadness swoons in frustration between the painful sheets of doomed lovers.
Love between two like-minded, look-a-likes is hard enough
without the problems of black, white, Christian, Muslim, us, and repetitively them.
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Hate has warred since evolution betrayed intellect, whispering difference.
Then, the masquerade of Democracy, Rights, Liberty, Opportunity, and Equality danced
in the shadows of New World superiority that overthrew foundations,
preaching, “all men are created equal,” with racist unification prosecuted by
political forces that turned people to property.
Now, Slavery and Freedom sit hand in suffocating hand as America’s first blood
courses through the veins of red, white, and blue.
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Then, they pledged allegiance to a great civilization and a proper culture, dependent
on the cargo of human flesh that experimented with race, and
smiled at the man with his mulatto child, bouncing from knee to knee.
Father, Owner, Possessor, Executioner.
Now, the American Dream brands new gangs of human cattle
overseas or across borders, while singing the national anthem, loudly
always singing proudly, but never without extravagant secrets;
“Shhhhhh,” Representative Democracy denies, glittering against the stars and stripes while a noose of a better nation is tied around the working neck by an Invisible Hand.
Forget the illegal immigrants or the Un-American children of all colors, ages, wages, and prices that will never pledge allegiance; but, hey, let us pledge allegiance.
Let’s blame the nimble fingers, overworked muscles, and sleep deprived eyes
for stealing our jobs; God himself forbid we cast out the white tips of french manicures
because consumerism is the true healing heart of America, or did you mean economy?
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The misadventure of the American race deforms under the bigoted creeds of the selfish empty.
Belated tears and proper silence must paint the soil to nurture the earth of unequal death before green grasses grow wealthy with acknowledgement and acceptance.
In order to form a more perfect union, freedom must illuminate the sky,
as each one of decides to pledge a new allegiance.
