THE YEAR AMERICA (almost) DIED

Sometimes I recall that awful year
when we were almost split asunder,
the riots, arson and pervasive fear
and molotovs exploding like thunder.

Anarchists and ANTIFA ran rife
as leftist "leaders" just looked on
at terrorists who valued no life
they filled the skies with smoke each dawn.

I guess they thought we'd stand aside
while their communist agenda rose
and they shut down freedom far and wide.
They'd soon regret the course they chose

In Virginia we finally made a stand
and caught them by surprise
stopping the pillage of that fair land
finally bringing fear to their eyes.

They had blocked off old Richmond,
swarmed the city declaring it was theirs.
The citizen soldiers came at dawn;
surrounded them and split no hairs.

For it had come to them or us.
At last they saw what We would do.
They might riot ,bully , they could cuss.
They all laid dead when we were through.

Their corpses were thick among the rubble.
their leaders swung from lamps and trees.
We united almost too late to end the trouble.
The smell of death tainted the breeze.

The American army just stood aside.
They'd sworn to uphold the constitution
not traitors who'd just run and hide.
A million patriots then hit Washington.

Trials of traitors in the capital halls
when martial law was at last declared;
then swift justice against pitted walls
after politicians' corruption was laid bare.

And we'd swollen to two million men
black , white, yellow all of one mind
We headed toward New York then.
Suddenly the enemy was hard to find.

Just like that, the riots stopped
everywhere across this land.
Yet surveillance cameras had not stopped.
We dug out those who would destroy our land.

It took a bit over a year
to capture, try and execute our foe.
Many left our country running in fear.
United people let them go.

Now all of the race baiters are gone
as well as the corruption they depended on.
Black, white ,yellow, red divisiveness they'd worked on
at last came to an end with the new dawn.

I was already old that year.
I know that my end is coming near.
Sometimes I must choke back a tear
for now no one must live in fear.....