Dreaming on

 Dreaming On


It is the fourth of July again

It is 2025

It is a day of mourning


On this day we remember

the high aspirations

of the Founders of this nation


On this day we remember

that the Constitution and Amendments

were written to free us

of the constraints

of autocratic rule


On this day we remember

that during the course

of the decimation of

the rights of the nations

long established on this continent

during the millennia before

the Europeans arrived

that we were striving to be free

yet enslaved Africans were imported

to create the agricultural machinery

that would become

a pillar of the economy


As a consequence of

our moral ambiguity

hundreds of thousands of us

perished in the bitter Civil War

over the abolition of slavery

close to a century after

the Declaration of Independence

the declaration of our inherent right

as human beings

to pursue happiness


As a consequence of

our developing economic and political heft

we contributed to victory over tyranny

during the two great wars

of the twentieth century

becoming a dominant world power

a light unto nations


As a consequence of

the success of the new nation

the talent and creativity

of our people

and the flood of immigrants

the United States was aglow

a country with a halo


When I woke up this morning

I was crying for the great nation

which I joined in 1971

when I was 24 years old

and sure that the moral future was bright


When I woke up this morning

I resolved to visit

the grave of this sacred

embodiment of great ideas

the United States of America


And when I woke up again

I realized that

unlike a deceased person

the reincarnation

of an empathic nation

is an entirely plausible dream


Aubrey Lieberman

7/4/25

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