One day each year we
wait to hear
our country’s current
state.
We wish to know if ebb
and flow
still keeps this nation
great.
Again we find our
thoughts preempt
by commentary cry
The President must
state, by law,
where country’s assets
lie.
He must tell us where we
have been
and where we now should
go.
He must tell us just
where we stand…
on path or Alamo .
Yet long before he
states one word
the critics have their
say…
experts who give their
advice
and taint with “Yea” or
“Nay”.
Then when the President
is through,
we’re told that which we
heard.
We’re told on which we
should agree
and how we should be
stirred.
Then comments from
across the aisle
oft twist and stain each
hue.
They tell us what they
would have done,
and change is overdue.
Then comes again the
media
to counsel you and me
With pundits they alone
did choose…
who lecture artfully.
We all should state, we
wish no help
to translate what we
hear
It’s those who would
ordain our good
that all of us should
fear
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