Happy Birthday America Poem by Curtis Johnson

Hello, my greatly beloved for whom I yet have high and lofty hopes and dreams. Your ideals and costly fought for principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, though threatened, are still highly favored and deeply intact. The vision of the founders, though seemingly under siege, remains so vividly in place, and perhaps even more real than the signers of 'the compact' on the Mayflower ever dreamed possible.

Speaking of that famous ship, you, my greatly beloved, like the Mayflower, must keep your sails set and never give way to high winds and storms at sea. O melting pot of dreams and storm-beaten flag of stars and stripes, push forward with all your might and of your destiny never losing sight. Our founders were not so naive as to think there would not be many fights. They forged ahead through their multiplied fears in the darkness of seemingly innuberable nights.
Their loses were great both at sea and at shore, but they fought through the fog of a million tear drops to be remembered among those considered neither fearful nor fearless ones, but as brave ones who rose above their fears and continued to roar as lions and soar the heights like eagles.

Through the evils and greed of Native American slaughters and African American slavery. Through more than 40 years of the silent cries of 60 million unborn babies. O great and beloved one, in spite of atrosities gone unheard and the pleas of rationality and reason unheeded, your entrenched goodness retains your greatness. O great and beloved one, your greatness often comes under attack but always bounces back. Your greatness sometimes seems under attack but remains on track. It's because your greatness lies not in your perfection, but in your noble pursuits in spite of your imperfections.

Two hundred and fourty one years; through battle scares and tempest tossed; through bloody wars and constitutional crises, you live on to wave 'Old Glory'. May your future be ever bright, shinning forth the light. Happy birthdayAmerica. July 4,1776-
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