"I Ask You..."

"I Ask You."
by Lora Bayh
November 9th, 2008


Proud and scared,
all shades in between.
With question to hope
for the new things we've seen.
The jubilant secretly shivering,
the frightened pray dare to hope,
regardless of affiliation
together we hold tightly history's rope.
Anticipate, we all do,
the outcome of this cause,'
the future of our plight.
For our children do we pause?
To embrace or to cry..
glass half full, or glass half dry?
Our present soon to be the past.
Choices now will surely last,
and I ask you.....

What decision have you made,
while in unbending resolve you stood,
unable to adjust...save only if you would.
Try to accept, to find a place,
in the face of future freedom's race,
to see today as long before,
when pilgrims stood on Plymouth's floor,
and what was established screamed, "Don't let it be!"
We, ourselves, replied, "All men are free!"
Today...tomorrow will be,
and I ask you.....

Doesn't mankind always seem to divide,
before God opens a flood door to broaden the mind!
All that seemed… before… a downward slide,
in turn became our nation's pride.
If all could calm themselves to see,
our country as the new epitome
of what real freedom is meant to be,
then I might ask you....

How much richer are we now with color at the helm.
It's reflection throughout our people might just overwhelm.
Players on one team, united, standing strong.
Our colors interwoven in a tapestry of dawn.
For the sun has risen now,
on our country's newest day.
Like newest days before
showed we always find our way.
These words are bold to say,
but I must ask you.....

Since things have now become,
what apparently they are,
Is there something to be won
by fearing lifting bars?
Or embracing what's to come?
Holding tightly your brothers hand?
To make the best of all of us
we need only resolve we can.
We are the people standing in the new day's light.
Can't undo, now we must all do what's right.
Put yesterday back with the past,
for the future races upon us fast,
and our children care not this moment here,
but someday will step into future years,
gaze back upon THIS history.
Learn what of us,
I'm questioning?
What is that you wish them to know?
That you embraced this time,
or fought is so?
I ask you....