AMERICAN RHAPSODY: ONE NATION UNDER...GOD?
Barry Green Jr 1973 (Florida)
AMERICAN RHAPSODY: ONE NATION UNDER....GOD?
Hear the drums again, drums of time
From our Fathers faith we slid away
Denial of history, let's call faith a crime
Keep God out of life, let none pray
If you love God, you're a threat
If you stand for Truth, you divide
Righteousness we are told to forget
And worship the concept of pride
America, we are a nation under...God?
My rhapsody grows more broad
Tell us we must be silent, faith has no place
Our Fathers cry, yet none now hear
No cry to God, no room for His Grace
We run to Hell without a pause or fear
Serve ourselves, deprave our mind
Danger to their lies our Faith is bound
Willfully they choose to be blind
Hope lies nowhere to be found
America, we are a nation under...God?
My rhapsody grows more broad
This is the road we are on
Our Faith is thrown away
No early light of Dawn
No cries of "USA!"
All that has made us great
Like a tide drawn under
I shudder ar this fate
When our Flag is torn asunder
America, we are a nation under...God?
My rhapsody grows more broad
Choose you this day whom we serve
The grapes of Wrath are pressed
Redemption our souls preserve
Then we know America God has blessed
Let's raise the motto, in God we Trust
And remain the Home of the Free
A choice we make, we must
Let our nation hit our knees
America, we are a nation under...God?
My rhapsody grows more broad
AMEN
About this poem
But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24 15
Written on March 14, 2024
Submitted by crucifiedinhim2 on March 14, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,367 |
Words | 279 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 10, 10, 10, 11 |
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