Freedom Song

by

Alejandro Lalinde

I

Human to Human
we lay, huddled
between breached steel & rubble
which lay just above
our heads.

gentle weeping
children: killed as orchestrated chaos
begins the News
reporting a sight
I don’t want to watch
again.

on TV
the images break hearts
across the miles of states
united: one more cry for those out there.

resonating
hate
between those who breathe the same air
as we.

how could I live to watch the brave
die amidst the saved;

perished defiant soldiers of the shifted modern age.

to watch the soft sun break across a new land,
in a risen wave of change:

a prayer whispered beside candle vigils
huddled as a mass of mourning people,
together:

we remember
those twin towers topple down as torn
paper cinders burn before our own watered-eyes
and
swiftly
float & fall from a clear blue
autumn sky.

II

yet, alive
between the sea, the rivers, its quiet mountainsides and fruited plains, a country still holds a shout,
a freedom song,
aloud
among these billowing
black clouds.

[bless us GOD each day]

so we can climb together to sift through our blessings
to save:

a mother’s love gone astray from her son’s beating heart,
alone from
hugging his shuttered fearful heart.

a cry we all now
take to live out a burnt-out fading-fate . . .

. . . yet
for freedom we raise our Flag

again
above our enemies
heads this better day,
this sorrow laid,
in Peace to grow
in strength once again,
to Unite
a people
as hand to hand
holdtight,

as Americans we’ll live to fight again, till Freedom
rings
a

new day.

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