With D Day just past, and Independence Day drawing near, I wrote this to share.

Fireworks fill the night sky
Explode to oohs and ahs.

Fiery trails of blood red

Thrilling kids, Mas, and Pas.

Celebrate freedom’s road

It’s Independence Day

Liberty’s seeds were sowed

It must not slip away.

Air fills with marching bands

Shrill fife, loud drums and pipes

On sands of foreign lands

Above flies Stars and Stripes.

Flintlock or tomahawk

Bayonet or Enfield

Silence dictator’s knock

Lest freedom be defiled.

Bullets zip, cannons roar

Earth becomes bloody fen

At home or foreign shore

Survivors became men.

Mile markers of headstones

Charting mile after mile

Peace gained by flesh and bones

And bodies in deep piles.

Hard fought, hard won, Independence Day..