" The Flag of Love"

Our 

Son and Daughter

Treasure the Tattered Flag

of our Love.

This Banner survived

their Revolution.

Threadbare now, 

it has become unutterably Precious.

Like embers,

it glows with the Familial Warmth

 whenever their Breath

comes close enough.

We know

that one Day

its Threads and Colors

will be Bathed

in the Renewing Spring

of a Grandchild's cry

for Freedom.

~Ester Cohen

(b.1971)

U.S.A.

~ Beannaichte'
2 March, 2015

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