Auditory shields withdrawn
Unveiling the perplexities of paradoxical revelry
As freedom chimes the chalice brim
With golden spoons and self-satisfactory grins
On this day some time prior,
Atop this very soil independence alit desire
Through violent means and refusing coils
A snake once tread was draped in silence
Entertaining the truce beset before
Pandering swiftly because and for
Sentient creations bright and biased
Mindful only to the severed silence
Accompanying the loops beneath
Underpinnings of dream and feast
Many still free to suffer
While the morally indigent smugly sit,
In fabrics befitting of fancied queens and kings
Smirking their usurping smiles
Daring to outline those sins that assailed against
As they detail painful occurrence
Resulting from illicit trysts and fits
And yet they suffer still,
As undigested beast and swine
Foully stutter beneath their belly lines
Dousing gluttony’s grit
With each reddened chalice
Tipped throughout periods of shortened time
Contrast this suffering
To the scraps denied
Those tables where true patriots dine
Happy to live and breath in a land that’s free
Content to rest heads at night
Knowing love has blessed each of them
That anything is possible
Despite the outstretched necks and noses snubbed
Piling their plates with oppressive “love”
As those stuffed tummies
Bobble like gelatinous cubes
Amused by parlays wagered upon
The distance made by children of a common man
Night terrors pass
As lightning affixes a midnight sky
Erupting pulsars
Loaded high
Where snakes stain the hands of children
Both rich and poor
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Evading Bedouin tags
Once reserved
For clouted men
In silken rags
And those defined
By poverty
As the tides shuffle in a darkened moon
The earth hides its vegetation under
Blankets of sleep
Sounds of starlight whispers
Take a bow
As curtains retract
Illuminating annualized Passion plays
All ills rescind
All sins forgiven
For but invariable lengths of minutes spent
On a hill
Or in the stands
Above the skyline
Looking out
Alone
Or in the company of many
Where outlooks are for the moment
Unified
Overlooking oceans and seas
From far off lands caressed by sandy sheets
To elaborate palatial escapes in the east
Palettes shift
In shade and hue
Assumptions bleed well into
The extravagance blinding the sight of stars
As the orchestral movements carve their niche
All eyes become enriched
From Presidents to hoodwinked fool
On this night, independence and hope comes alive for you
