Honor

Honor

It is constantly asked of me to give

To show deference to a higher good

Even if it comes to my last breath, my life 

It is the highest code to live by, to risk it all

One is asked to forget one's self for country

Yet what does it truly means when forgotten 

I'm cast aside by those of higher authority 

For selfish gain will put me in harms way

What do I do when with bravery I faced the foe

Yet returning I'm treated as no one cares to know

It will never be a good thing to live it for men

We who are broken, vacillating, unpredictable and unappreciative

When laws are enacted, institutions set up and country turns its back

All men are created equal under God, but not regarded so by men

Men of like passion, given wealth, position and trust to be fair, to love

Rather I will give honor to God whose breath is in my nostrils 

I will not regard what those of like dust and frame can do

When I came to honor my parents are no more to see their child

When with hope filled hearts they once longed for a better life for me

Now all will know why to honor God is the ideal 

Not even families who can kill their own for the sake of honor

Honor without the presence of truth can lead to anarchy

This land of my birth, my adoption says, "one nation under God"

This land of my coming where it says, "the land of the free, the home of the brave"

May it be that one day for all the blood we have shed

We will be true to our conscience to live out the inate value placed in all men