Your smile heals
my wary heart
strained to its limits
to pressure levels
ready to burst
on the 4th, my eyes
see you as a effervescent
girl not yet a woman
but approaching one
of immense beauty
as though the picture
is a snapshot in time...
You exude happiness
and cheer not matched
or within in shutter distance
I see you and we all see you
for the levity you had
on a day meaning more to me
for having been the birth
of my grandmother
and the descent from her
to my mother and including
her children, like myself
and a birth of a nation
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
Perhaps seeing Liberty as innocence? There is something majestic about this poem. Just excellent....A 10.