Is This the Beginning of the End

July 8, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is Independence Day (USA), which falls on July 4th.

Today’s poem is a July 4^th poem about the dangers of indebtedness to other nations.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Is this the beginning of the end?

Now is when we start to fall?

Debtors to both foe and friend,

Eventually obliged to all?

Perhaps we can pull out of this,

Electing leaders who will lead,

Not stuck in this paralysis,

Dreading most what we most need.

Each must give that all might gain,

Nor ought we shun the sacrifice.

Could we but bear the healing pain

Equally, we'd pay the price.

Dependence on another's will

Assumes that we their coffers fill,

Yielding ever to their advice.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/isthis.html. For more poems for Independence Day, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/july4thpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)

July 3: Fantasies Endure the Test of Time

July 4: Just Think of How It Was That Hot July

July 5: I Wish There Were a Washington

July 6: In Every Heart There Is, of Course, Corruption

July 7: Justice Is as Justice Does

July 8: Is This the Beginning of the End