Seven Four

Day four of month seven

on Pope Gregory's timeline,

 

a day to celebrate freedom

from tyranny and fear,

 

but it's a stop-over, a milepost

on the highway of human events,

 

yet the course of human events

is a flow in a river channel

and the movement and the war

for independence is a flash flood

that creates an oxbow lake,

 

a remnant of wher the channel

once was and the channel always

changes and re-arranges, so much so

that state borders, enclave borders

and international boundaries

need to be set to a new human

standard bound to physical

and abstract constraints,

 

and that is what the

war for independence

signified to the preponderence

of humankind, that freedom

from tyranny and fear can be

acheived yet the shift can go

back toward trepidation and

oppresion creating the most

common oxbow lake of all,

the totalitarian kind

 

keep that in mind when

the flash flood of change

comes like a thief in the night,

 

that is the point of seven four