With Respect And In Freedom Poem by Michael Hopkins

Many have died

Many more will die

We will remember

The ones who we loved
And

The ones who loved us

Our Strength

Our Resilience

Our Fortitude

Will see us through these dark times

And

Those who were deceived and betrayed

Will be inspired to end this madness

And

Find their own Strength

Their own Resilience

Their own Fortitude

Our inheritance from countless generations

Who came before

And

Join us in a calm, confident manner

That will shake and rattle

The powers that should not be

And

Reason and love and faith

Will be restored

In ourselves

In our communities

In our world

And

One day in the future

Our descendants will smile upon our memory

With

Thanksgiving and gratitude

For our Sacrifice

For our Strength

For our Fortitude

For our faith restored in ourselves

And

In one another

And

For turning the tide

By

Revealing the great deceptions

That were intended to imprison

And

To enslave Mankind

Instead

We built a foundation

For a future world

In which our descendants

Will live in a world in which

They will live together

With respect

And

In freedom

© 2023 M.N. Hopkins