I am nearing the end of my life cycle
each day the Rigor Mortis seeps in deeper
from my loss of spine and conviction to my principles....
I have become a coward...afraid to move
and am therefore paralyzed by my lack of will
I was once a soldier...an enemy of evil
but that was long ago....
before being corrupted by socialist and vague civil liberties
I became bigoted against my forefathers....
Men and women who had bravely fought the evils of tyrants
and under God founded the United States Of America
Alas...the horror of war...combined with the shame of being powerful...
is killing me

May God have mercy on my soul....


(2007)

Ted Sheridan

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-didn-t-live-for-over-two-hundred-years-to-die-in-your-arms/