America As You Fall

(Note: see the first letter at the beginning of each paragraph… when combined they spell the title – AMERICA AS YOU FALL)

An old man sitting by the tree

With spirit so ancient yet so free

Sings the song of the mighty fall

For the world to learn from story of thee

Mouth-organ humming all his words,

Hunting with his musical swords

He sings ballad of you, the fallen titan

And your failed quest to win the world

Enraged and pompous as you stand

Holding knife hidden in your hand

He sees it all and knows, my dear friend

What you seek by torching the greatest sand (Oil politics in ongoing gulf civil war)

Raven gaze as you hold

On the lands of oils and that of gold

Sacrificing your goats for your sake

From your own weapons that you sold (Weapon deals of US and it charge against

Gulf leaders once considered close to US)

Ice of your heart never melts

Despite dozen shoes thrown at your face

Yet you claim yourself the mighty one

Can’t you see over are your days? (world- wide criticism of USA and shoes thrown at

mighty personality of the states)

Constellation of tusk and red sea of stars

Rise strong for the mighty war

And all you pay for oil is blood,

Leaving half the world with incurable scars? (reference to India and China as emerging

nations)

As you descend down the stairs

Can’t you see how you fall in despair?

Now taste your own poison for love

That all the world for you now bears

All your foes on whom you stepped

Your entire friends burdened by your debt

Together will now pay back your coin

Laden with tears those widows have wept

So sad, you didn’t spare your own

Made stairs for yourself from own child’s bone!

And still they pay for what you do

It’s time to dawn, and your nights would be gone (tax burden for US citizens due to war and

descending economy)

Your weapons as now charge at you

Like frosty morning with poisonous dew

Eating your plants and hands that sowed

Your foes outnumber your friends so few (terrorism, as started by US against Soviet

Union)

Only dust remains in your chest

With emerging tycoons beating your best

See how the old man sings your folly

Hold back the rage now take a rest (crumbling US economy and its debt with other

countries)

Umbrella of yours is tearing up

Exposing you to hail and soaking up

Old man told you then, and with time he pays

You axed yourself and fell from the top

Folly is bad, so is greed you hold

Treacherous your ways killed men so bold

Yet you now lose to your own puppets

Devils you raised now eat your gold (Al-Qaeda was initiated by US against Soviet Union

has wedged war against itself)

All the world laughs at your face

As old man sings with binding grace

Your saga, where you are the Othello

Hero so mighty, yet falling in his own mess!

“Love thy enemy”, is all he taught

For justice and for love that he fought

Smirks at you as passing by

As you turn from so green to pale and drought (land of Dreams to country failing with

unemployment)

‘Last, the old man plays his flute

Singing the song of a heavy loot

Where the robber gets all the riches

Just to die tripping over his golden boot!!!!