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Ben’s Bridge

06 December 2005


Was this a secret place - a world
of void and misunderstood meaning
While those who compose
great poems are to share
wither and die not known to live

Of a world all set up
in its niceness to conquest
An environment in part cruel
taken in liberty as if Franklin
in declaration was but abridged

Programmed for consumerism
where even in Philadelphia
There was a toll to pay - when
leaving behind one status to acquire

Driving across the Benjamin Franklin bridge
and returning by the way Walt Whitman wrote
A path from Pennsylvania to New Jersey to travel

One people - one mankind - across
the Delaware River - where
George Washington did once
himself in the eye of defeat
over independence go

a poet who cares

© Copyright 2006 Christopher W Herbert - All Rights Reserved
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