{"id":277,"date":"2021-06-04T00:05:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/WPBeginner\/?p=277"},"modified":"2021-06-04T00:05:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T06:05:10","slug":"the-eagles-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightwardbound.org\/Main\/2021\/06\/04\/the-eagles-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle’s Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Emil Therianos (2016)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you hear that?
Don’t you hear that mournful cry?
The eagle: she’s hurt, wounded by the division of her people.
She searches desperately for someone to unite them once again.
Will she succeed?
Will her people unite again as one nation under God?
Many of her people have learned to use their freedom to hurt and make afraid;
they claim their enumerated rights to make themselves superior to others.
And others waste their resources living artificial lives of vanity,
while nearby, wounded souls struggle to survive.
Her young are no longer taught to fly,
but instead learn to fear, to abase, to disgrace.
She watches sadly as joyful love fades into feud,
leaving the young tossed from house to house according to legal decrees.
Doesn’t it tug at your heart when you see her teardrops fall
as she witnesses another American die at the hands of a fellow citizen
or even by his own hand after giving up on a life made hard by those who should have cared?
Confused, at a loss, she searches further
for those who’ll help unite her people.
Now she\u2019s turned her head, she\u2019s looking straight at us,
waiting, hoping that we\u2019ll give her the nod to say we\u2019ll help.
Can we ignore her plea?
Can we pretend we don\u2019t see?
It will take great effort by you and me.
We will have to change ourselves,
focus less on \u201cme\u201d and more on \u201cwe,\u201d
less on agendas and more on the truth,
less on what we want and more on what we should do.
So what will we choose? How do we respond?
She\u2019s waiting, watching for our signal.
Let’s make that eagle proud, heal her heart, and help her soar again.
Let\u2019s give her our nod of support.
Then let\u2019s go to work.
For America (the eagle) is in our hands!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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