This is no private country.
no one’s exclusive club.
America is res publica
a republic, a public thing.
America belongs to no one,
not even a favored God,
who historically has demonstrated
a preference for divine right kings
and sometimes queens,
a monarch, all power centered in one.
America’s pronoun is ‘WE’.
We rejected simplicity, autocracy,
and chose complexity, democracy
the power of the people, all the people,
celebrating diversity and difference,
e pluribus unum – out of many one
forged in the fire of vigorous debate.
Learning appreciation, unlearning hate.