Rebirth Of America

Rebirth Of America
© Surazeus
2026 07 04

I was eleven, fifty years ago, 
on the two hundredth birthday of this nation, 
descended from Pilgrims and Puritans 
who sailed across wild seas in fragile boats 
to escape oppression of kings and priests 
and live through freedom and justice for all. 

Believing we had found Garden of Eden, 
new paradise in the lush wilderness, 
we built our city shining on the hill, 
founded firm on the noble principle 
that every person born on Earth is equal, 
free to live as they will, if they harm none. 

Through revolution against greedy king, 
we built new nation of farmers and craftsmen, 
expanding west from sea to shining sea 
through scope of our democratic republic 
based on liberty and justice for all, 
to welcome refugees from every land. 

Through civil war against plantation kings 
we freed people they enslaved from cruel chains, 
expanding civil rights for every soul 
in brave demonstrations against hate 
because every human born on this Earth 
should be equal in just eyes of the law. 

Twelve score and ten years ago our ancestors 
brought forth on this continent, we colonized, 
our new nation, conceived in Liberty, 
and dedicated to the proposition 
that all humans are born equal on Earth, 
who may live as they will, if they harm none. 

Now we are engaged, with startled surprise, 
in another civil war against hate, 
testing our resolve to maintain our rights 
to life and liberty for every soul, 
so we must dedicate, with firm resolve, 
our hearts to make sure this nation endures. 

We are resolved with honest faith of hope 
that this old nation we have long admired 
shall glow with new birth of freedom through love 
so this government, hijacked by tyranny, 
shall be restored with wisdom of our hearts 
of the people, by the people, and for the people. 

Now I lived sixty one years on this Earth, 
descended thirteen fertile generations 
four hundred years of constant social change 
from wise Puritan Poet Anne Bradstreet, 
so with Minerva, Goddess of Liberty, 
I celebrate rebirth of America.