Mere Simile
When you climb a ladder to the roof
you must take rungs one by one
then why ask Iraqi citizens
to start their nation at the top?
When we claimed freedom from the crown
in trust our laws would bring us into one
that taught those thirteen sovereignties
to share joint ventures under God,
we knew some highways must be built
and there were wars to fight, so we sang
one anthem to one flag right in world view
as foreign nations
saw we gave our state flags
some proper credit due
but fought as one
united in
experimental federation.
Puritans, Anglicans disagree,
our Amish are still hiding just like Kurds
but through it all,as we did,
the many can become the few,
the United States of Iraq.
To fight outsiders each chip in some men,
let Sunni share in oil, start local tribes
to regional ‘meet’ then state and at the end
a federal court can force fair trials for all
in this new United States of Iraq.
Sovereign rule is not partition,
Massachusetts is a Commonwealth
and Virginia still wants slaves!
Militias are like our state guards
who use to kill each other too.
Catholics, Moslems, Jews
could verbally still fight
in the United States of Iraq.
Start on the first step, separate,
each get your own new flag and name.
Find the issues upon which you all say yea.
Bind yourselves aboard your common goal.
Make it work, it has been done before,
UAE, EU, even Soviet Block;
unless you are too lazy or you think
this is too hard a chore.
