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July 4 2015

On this day, one of the greatest documents ever forged was taken into effect. Freeing and birthing a great nation such as the world has ever seen. The nation that bought forth the Einsteins’, Teslas’ and the Kennedys’ among so many others. While people shun this great nation and look at it as it is now. I’ll never forget who it was and who it set out to become. And this just breaks my heart!


I cry for the person you once were, the values you held, the innocence you kept. Such values have stood the test of time, built you and have never at once depreciated, why shun them and see them as backward now? I cry for the great ideals you had and the brave sons and daughters who fought for and died for those ideals. Was it all for naught? I cry for the very foundation which made you great which you now have shattered and have decided to continue with the structure. I cry for you.


How could you be tainted so much and let this disease eat at you so terribly? Could the mistakes of the past have caused you to be this way? But you even showed us all the power of moving on and talk about it day to day? You always gave us advice and your generosity is known far and beyond. Did you also give away your sanity? Was this world too corrupt for something as great as the person you once where? Is the message of hope a vain one? Of all your kin- you were the one safely tucked away from all the disparities of this world, your splendid isolation all at once indicated that you were not for spilling blood and contempt. Was the isolation too dark, too cold or too lonely?


Are we too late to save you? To try to reason with you? To build you? We need you back. You told us all that you have weathered the storm and ready to change for the better- is this what you meant. Are we all doomed like this? Or will you rise up and correct this madness ravaging and controlling you like this?


Despite it all, I still have faith in you. I still believe in your capacity to change, I still think that you are in a temporary phase. That this world didn’t completely remove the old you that we all loved and respected. I still think you will be humble enough to correct your mistakes. You have always been the talker, can your talks of pride, growth and strength grow to be talks of humility, healing and hope?  I still feel deeply for you and I still need you there. I still think that you have not lost hope too and that you will rise. I still think that even though you have lost trust due to all the hardships and all that is wrong with the world- you will regain your trust and stand for what is right and just.


You have always been determined, how did this determination turn to stubbornness? You have always been kind, how did this kindness turn to arrogance? You have always been resourceful, how did this resourcefulness turn to you needing other people to get things done and make you happy? When was it ever right to always have things your way and when was force and harsh reaction ever the solution for conflict? Have you completely shunned the great wise teachings from the religious book and your sons like Martin Luther King Jnr?


Even your enemies now laugh at you for losing your way. You have always did things not minding people and what they say. But is this path you are taking going to garner more reward for persistence to goals or will it make you out to be lost beyond laughing and pitying? You have claimed that love has always been your ideal but why are all your perceptions and thoughts tainted by the stench of greed and misdirection? Why are all your remarks and thoughts so negative now? Is it bad company? You have always known the danger of following what people say. You have always favored being right than being popular.  


Although I might not completely agree with some of the things you did in the past, I still stood by you. But the path you are headed now- It’s dark and treacherous and I’m afraid no insane, just and good man will follow you down that road. For that road can corrupt. 

I urge you to be the innocent, positive thinking, principled and value oriented person you once were. I need you, we all need you.



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