Independence Day

I know that it is not the 4th of July today, but I found this poem this morning, and it says exactly what I wanted to say.  Hope your day was amazing. 

Independence Day

by Del (ABE) Jones

In the year of 1776

That paper was decreed -

They were tired of oppression

And wanted to be freed

They wrote a Declaration

So the whole world would see -

This was, "the home of the brave

And the land of the free"

They signed that piece of parchment

The leaders of this land -

Knowing, divided they would fall

But, together they could stand

A new world lay before them

Untamed from shore to shore -

They swore the would protect it

If it meant going to war

Battles have been fought -

And many lives have been lost -

So sad something so basic

Has such a high, high cost

'Seems freedom is a luxury

There's some would bind us all -

Like then, together, we can stand

But divided, we will fall

More than two hundred years

Have past by since that day

That each of us celebrate

In our own different way

We should be proud and thankful

Pay our share of the cost -

Not take freedom for granted

For it easily could be lost