Though she's not actually there,
I can't look at a globe and not see America,
Her great states stretching out beyond their size.
(Alaska and Hawaii seem to be there
just to assure me
that borders were never quite her cup of tea).
What will happen when she's really gone?
I'm referring not to the time when she's no longer represented
visually on some atlas,
but to the time when the land mass she onced called home
picks up its roots and runs!
My world, my earth and my heaven,
Fled, dead and unpresent.
Will I survive
the haunting sight
of my great protector's
moment of cowardice?
I think so.
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