Page 17 - Poetry Book-John-sims

Once upon a war
A Civil War
There were flags
Many flags
Before the before
There was a Blue One
With One white star
One with the Stars and Bars
The First National One
And then the rejected One
That became the Naval One
That became General Lee’s square battle One
Mapped into an almost all
White surrendering One
The Second National One
Then with a red stripe on the end
The third and final One
Then came many lost battles
Then a lost War
Then the re-union

The Naval Flag returned
Resurrected
Rising from the sea
Of White pain and Black freedom
Deconstructed Reconstruction
A KKK One
A Birth of Nation One
For Segregation
For White Pride The Naval flag, 1863
For Southern Heritage

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