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David John Flagg
Maryland   

Poems

I know
My friend
I hurt you
My friend

I didn't mean to
I'll do anything
For you stay my friend
But I understand if you don't want to be my friend

I'm a red flag
So thanks for being my friend
What a red flag
But you're still my friend

I know I'm a red flag
But don't leave me my friend
Definitely a red flag
But still don't leave me my friend

Maybe I have some green flags
But I'm mostly a red fkag
Despite that
Can you still be a friend

I'm a red flag
Abandonment issues
What a red flag
I am just a big red flag

Quite red flag
So insecure
Crazily insecure
What I read flag

I guess I'm pretty empathetic
And smart
So some green flags
But at the end of the day I'm mainly a red flag

I'm sometimes accidentally a little manipulative
What a red flag
I try to stop accidentally manipulating
But I'm a red flag

Barely any social skills
What a red flag
Can't understand most of my peers
What a red flag

I can't grasp the minds of a lot of people my age
Quite a red flag
I can't figure them out
Quite a red flag

Can't focus
Can barely do my work
My ADHD I think
What a red flag

Worry that their not my friends
Cause of the tiniest things
Such a red flag
Yes a red flag

It's like I can't help it
I'm a red flag
But please don't leave me
Even though I'm a red flag

I can understand if you leave me
I'm a red flag
But please don't leave
Despite the fact I'm a red flag
Richard Riddle Jul 2016
(Composed by Billy Liebert; Recorded by John Wayne -1973)

Face the Flag of stars and bars,
Of red and white and blue,
A flag that guarantees the rights
For men like me and you.
Face the Flag, son! Read what's written there--
The history, the progress and the heritage we share.
Our flag relects the past, son, but stands for so much more,
And in this Age of Aquarius, it still flies in the fore.
It leads the forward movement, shared by all mankind,
To learn...to love...to live with peace of mind;
To learn the mysteries of space, as well as those of earth;
To love each man for what he is, regardless of his birth;
To live without the fear of reprisal for belief;
To ease the tensions of a world that cries out for relief.
Face the Flag of stars and bars,
Of red and white and blue,
A flag that guarantees the rights
For men like me and you.
Face the Flag, son! Take a good long look.
What you're seeing now can't be found in a history book.
It's the present and the future, son. It's being written now,
And you're the one to write it, but the flag can show you how.
Do you know what it stands for? What its makers meant?
To think...to speak...the privilege of dissent;
To think our leaders might be wrong...to stand and tell them so.
These are the things that other men under other flags will never know.
But responsibility...that's the cross that free men must bear,
And if you don't accept that, the freedom isn't there.
Face the Flag of stars and bars,
Of red and white and blue,
A flag that guarantees the rights
For men like me and you.
Face the Flag, son, and face reality.
Our strengths and our freedoms are based in unity.
The flag is but a symbol, son, of the world's greatest nation,
And as long as it keeps flying, there's cause for celebration.
So do what you've got to do, but always keep in mind,
A lot of people believe in peace...but there are the other kind.
If we want to keep these freedoms, we may have to fight again.
God forbid, but if we do, let's always fight to win,
For the fate of a loser is futile and it's bare:
No love, no peace...just misery and despair.