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C. Douglas Caffey
I Saw Liberty Crying
On Ellis Island
there stands a lady there
with torch raised
high for all
to see.
As I see her in my
mind's eyes
today
I saw a teardrop
falling down,
and I watched until
it hit the
ground.
Like a glittering diamond
it shone all
around and I looked up and
asked her,
"Why are you crying
thus?
Your name is Liberty
and aren't you
protecting
us?"
Much to my surprise
she lifted her
eyes to the
skies
and the tears stared flowing
down.
As she wept
I felt her sorrow of a
broken heart.
I heard her moans as
she sobbed
and raised her voice
ever so softly
to God.
I heard her say in such
a melancholy
way,
"Lord, why is it that
this nation has
forgotten her royal
birth
and has gone the way
of all the
earth,
in denying Your
presence
here upon this sacred
soil.
No praying in the school,
no
Golden Rule,
no reading of Your
Holy Word,
and so little praying
is ever
heard.
Christianity is pushed
aside
while false religions
can well
abide.
Why has the government
silenced the
voices of the past
whose voices rang with
Sweet Freedom's
sound
upon which this nation,
so long ago
was
found?
One nation under God
was taught to all
who learned
how America came
to be,
and this was known from
sea to shining
sea.
As You have said,
blessed is that nation
whose God is
the Lord.
Then why, I ask, do so many
desire to unite with
other nations in
the forming of a common bond
when Liberty and
Freedom
are foreign to them?
Why should I stand here
with torch raised high
lifting the torch
of Freedom to the
sky?
My broken heart
is the reason
that I
cry."
And so I learned from
Lady Liberty
the source of her
tears
and share with her
the sorrow
of the
years
when men think so little
of our nation's
founding by
the mighty hand of
God!
Then I ask myself what is
the reason that so many men
have died in battle
to keep
Liberty and Sweet
Freedom
in our court?
Have they died in vain
through all the
years,
where red American blood
has mingled with
Liberty's tears?
Join with
me
in keeping America
free.
The writer is a disabled veteran
of
World War II
and has loved Freedom
through the
years,
and his heart is heavy
to see Lady Liberty's
tears.
C. Douglas Caffey
jonn316@comcast.net
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