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Foreswear the Promise of the Future, America

Author : Tina Ebey
Email : ebey@aol.com
Copyright Info : © 2002, All rights reserved by Tina Ebey.
In a land where votes were stolen and the media manipulated to comply with
manufactured consent
I thank those who have joined together to bring promise to the spoken word
When I was young I was taught that I could raise my bosom and that the flag
would foreswear my allegiance
To goals and vision that would embrace the global community and man each in
his individual way, democracy!
Now I know that I must seek again to reimagine a dawn from friends and even
foe
Based on no hesitation that the promise has been broken
Emboldening the word through documentation much like writing the constitution
or the declaration of independence
I will join with you each and every one like a brother and sister, mother and
father parent and child, mentor and disciple to find a new beginning and seek
hope joined with the family of man
That the future will not be stolen more and that truth will hold value,
that hearts will lift to fortify and ensure freedom and that moral law and
the legal framework will bind integrity in a battle with satan both in terror
and revenge and that every man and woman will sound the bell of future
generations

With your crown asunder can you refurbish your laurels based on a spiritual
inheritance? from civil rights won through sheer force of will, a vote
protected in the distant past
A bloodless revolution with hallowed halls of infinity a noble victor in the
humble leadership of martyrs at the side of King
At once young, with virtue like a remembered honor in the lion's den of
damocles
Can we overcome knowing the fear of death?
Will we know peace again and a code of law that forged through forebearance
will decide a victory?
Let's join together and continue to fight until we see it done, each in his
or her own way but side by side until a spiritual civilization is cultivated
and accord brings harmony through treaties with vision blessed through
diversity embracing global leadership.
Shaking off the shackles of fraud built by corrupt men stealing what is not
theirs and seeking to blindside our resources as if we do not see them or
know what they have done.
We will outsmart the devil through kindness and determination to protect our
children and the future, this I foreswear with you by my side, new friends
and old each in their own step and at their own pace in a rhythm blessing the
sanctity of life.

Thank you to each and every contributor to the Earth Charter !

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