For Self And Country Poem by KarlRomeo PierreLouis

Consider who I am
of all imperfections that a man can owe
match it and grant its blame to me
summon now what you may and forgive
more than you're willing to remember
till the painful weariness becomes amicable
flourishing better and fuller than yesterday

Consider the day and hour
of its virtue and potential to birth daydreams
below and above the soil of dreamers and wanderers
whose arts and talents fit gloriously hand in hand
within the limits of mirth and tales
delivering goals and fears faithfully by the seconds
never spending taunts or promises without permission

Consider its condition
younger still with aged ears and eyes
filled hopelessly with memories of ever after
with honor and fair desire warming its color
with only your thoughts to guide its affection
these are compliments hugged in the pockets men & mice
kept to betray the actions of hate and love

Consider the experience
swallowed with a note and tune to clear the sky above
making humors and tremors of the heart rejoice
of all perjured and refused whom mortal touches fade
in the repairing frame of its embrace and by heaven still
never falling, never apart, never ending