False Idles

You held the blue line

while we watched speechless

as they stormed the hill

armed with trumped-up speeches;

cheap t-shirts, and false idles

while we wept at the stones

cast upon our founders

and the ones dressed in blue

we did hear the moans

as you broke the coup

with the crack of your bones

as you stood fast, for the truth

we all held our breath

as you choked on the mace

as they fouled the halls

of freedoms embrace

this hate-filled cabal

of righteous displace

but you… held the line

with your hearts and your lives

while our heads hung in resign

you kept the fragile dream alive

on that darkest of nights

your true courage shined

the light upon our hopes ballot

in that glorious capital shrine

that will now be forever cast

in the beauty of your hearts so pure

as a grateful nation basked

in the blue light of your truths endure

because you held the line

© 2021 Robert Trakofler