An Oath Sworn To Defend

-An Oath Sworn To Defend-
by Keaton Foster



Patriots
Anarchists
Those who fear
Those who don’t
Live by the sword
Die by the word
Stand for something
When everything else fails
Always believe in a new day
Always battling for change
As we continually honor
What has made us great
All around this big blue stone
We are examples of freedom
We are understated fanatics
Of choice and the right
To live with those choices
Pinnacles of surrealism
We see what is beautiful
When others only see
What is ugly
Nothing can ever make us
Betray the solemn promise
We undertake by being born here
When we close our eyes
And pray to the God of our kind
We ask him for all that we need
And nothing of what we want
We ask his to save many of us
And to redeem every one of us
We are mountains of optimism
And when the world beyond
Our borders plays us down
We listen to nothing they say
Our hearts are red, white, and blue
Our blood is bound by our truth
We live for what it means to be free
And if any risk is placed upon
That freedom then we remove it
Into battle we willingly march
Killing the enemy of our ways
Murdering the ideological essence
Of all they have to say
We know that they won’t ever change
They will always push their ideals
Forcefully down the throats
Of those unlike them in every way
They will always be quick to hang
Those who attempt to betray
The form of control they display
We are nothing like them
Because we are better than them
An oath sworn to defend
Is no game my friends
A man is only as good as his word
And every man must keep it
Even at great personal risk
There can be nothing less
And if there ever is
Then we as a people have failed
Sure it sounds harsh
Sure it sounds exaggerated
But the raw truth always does
If we ever give less
Than we as a country are capable of
Then we as a society have opened the door
To the wolves beyond our borders
They will come here and kill
The strong, the weak, those innocent
And every person in between
An oath sworn to defend
As one American to the very next
I beg of you this
Never break your word
Never fail the promise
Of what it means to have been born
As part of the greatest nation
On God’s green earth…



An Oath Sworn To Defend
Written by Keaton Foster Copyright © 2014.