My country is a place where the Great are small and the small are Great. It is mostly what I gained By experience and a little of what I learned about from afar. In my Land the greatest man is my Dad Dad and the most loved people are Those I have personally known. I Forgive them first and last for never Having been recognized as saints. None to my knowledge has ever held Political office. I have never shaken a "Great" man's hand. I feel I am no less For all the stars being faraway. I would Not have it any other way. My country Is not an abstract place. It is a known- Remembered place. It does not ask me To shed another's blood nor my own as Proof that I am patriotic nor to obey the President or a general who says he knows What is right and I should do to be free. I voluntarily give my love-not my blood My country is a fresh green place that is Full of Gods perfume from the flowered Meadows where the river valleys meet a Sunlit morning sea where I first met all And the great stars never spoke but to Wish us all well because He is kind and Most heavenly is this my Fatherland. In My country where he has hidden charity.
I believe it was Abraham Lincoln who said: If God Did not love the common man why did he make so Many of them
...Are you nobody too? Emily Dickenson
There are no common people-just people and maybe some a little less just. but who am I to Judge? .