Most unjustly I deprecated you For being on coins, flags, insignia Feathers plucked from someone else's headdress For depicting an us that is not us A bald figurehead hatching lie after lie But I never really saw you, did I? Their flattened likenesses were never yours Now, I see you hovering above me, now Nobody's symbol, no country's dogma Nobody's original but your own They must have only seen themselves in you Not you in themselves, never you for you And for that, and them, and you, I am sorry
J. Commander
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