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[apiphile]

A short hop across the sea

The ticket to Liverpool is cheaper by far
Than one to New York; and for this
Your grandchildren's children will forever be
Traitors to their roots
And never crowned the president of the freest.

You will join someone else's war an engineer
And return malnourished and revolutionary
From the inhumanity of a spared life;
Your blood, red and socialist, will fill
with printers' poisons and leave behind,
unfathered, two English children and one Welsh wife.

But for all these futures, I want you to know
As you lie almost a full century dead
That your descendant's flag is only ever rainbow
But his heart and soul and blood are forever red.

Comments

[wolfy_writing]

I like this. Very powerful