My Country (New Poem)

"My Country"

by Tim Kavi

This is the moment

of appreciation and reflection

some have died for us to be here

and some lived in a new land

it is what we longed for

striven in the new mindfulness

melting pot

of You and I

communities different

longing to be knit together

a union of composites

sometimes opposing entropy

in a universe of love 

brotherhood and sisterhood

in a cradle of democracy

cosmic and free

where only unfettered

wings and spirits

light the night.