One side, a smile… a face
The other, an eagle.. a place
Toss and flip a million chances
Neither will make greater advances
Conjoined from the start
Never aligned, yet never apart
No greater no equal no less the mate
Built upon centuries of hate
Separated by the smallest of bridges
Perfectly carved a series of ridges
E pluribis unum
Divided we find our doom
Hatred, prejudice, unjust
Our hope is In God We Trust
I'm not a poet. But this was inspired by NN where she, a 10 year old, describes our current situation like a coin. You have two sides. Neither is right. Neither is wrong. Oddly enough, they can never be closer. Stranger yet, they can never be further apart. And in the middle of all this... inscribed on the coin... "In God We Trust." Who coined that term?? Not the founding fathers... no no. It was actually Abraham Lincoln... in the midst of the Civil War when our country was... you got it.. completely torn apart.
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