America is the greatest nation on Earth, we can never forget or betray that. |
-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. |