Is that sun setting, or is it rising?

Bruce Springsteen: The Wrestler

Is that sun setting, or is it rising?

Tempest brews in questioning eyes

Relying

Dying

For an answer

Anything

In

A country of beginnings

July 4^th celebrates independence

Final victory forgotten

Did it happen?

Or does the war still rage

In

Days of infamy all

So goes the dance

Now let us see if we can keep it

Can we?

Do we dare to take a chance?

On ourselves

When

Huddled masses yearn to breathe free

While

Glittering prisons meet rotting schools

Producing fools

To rush piles of leaves as an

Unending autumn

Waits for spring

As

I-pods replace

Debate

In halls of knowledge

Class combat sophmoric

Finding that the key

To victory in

Disorders grant exemption

Sanctified salvation

For their one

To be

First among equals

For there is no equal

In the land of divide and conquer

Community lost

Forget the cost

King killers demand

Royal treatment

Community lost

Forget the cost
Wal-Mart is open
24/7

Technology to separate

Divide and conquer

In the glory of the one

Passion found banal

Amongst us all

You can look

But don’t touch

Touch, but don’t feel

For that might make it real

Then you might notice

The silent steal

Save

The individual

Who declares independence

From independence

And builds self

Through the construction of others

Penance?

Perchance?

Do they even have a chance?

Is that sun setting, or is it rising?