Monument to Faith
or Foolishness
Alone,
unkept, stands the monument to vanity.
For
ages has it stood on the crested dunes of the high desert sands.
Covered
in the sediment of time - a tribute to man's insanity.
It
echoes the woeful dirge of forgotten potentates and lands.
The
poet has dubbed the ugly edifice, Ozymandias![1]
It
neither speaks, nor does it possess a date, for it is timeless.
The
crumbled stones give expression of all vainglorious,
And
on its trunk no names of nations that remain faceless.
There
is a Land Between the Seas of whom mention is not made.
That
land is a work in progress whose end is yet to be learned,
The
morning of its founding gave hope of future promise laid
In
God whose Son the Tempter spurned.
In
some gray quarry beyond the Veil of Time,
That
nation, tall and grand, is writing its final tribute page
Either
to glorious remembrance line by line,
Or
to the reprehensible fate of ignoble rage.
The
Eagle of its Nature sits high upon the craggy Rock,
Whose
eyes are keen to see the past and future scenes.
It
has the power to soar, and to open up the lock
That
opens God's favor to nations, peoples, kings and queens.
What
words may be engraved concerning the Land Between the Seas?
Will
they omit a name or time of passage in its course?
Or
shall that land rise up again before the Sands of Time cease,
And
once more bear to heart its Godly source?
That
tale will be told in a host of tongues,
For
nations are comprised of multitudes and not the few.
Each
one who calls himself a citizen and to the forefront runs,
Must
form and grave the face that's missing from our view.
God
bless America Again!
©2015
Jerry L. Ogles
[1]
Ozymandias was a Greek
name for the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II. All prominent figures and the
empires they build are impermanent and their legacies fade to decay and
oblivion once they no longer follow their founding principles and join they
parade led by the Prince of Darkness.
