First Thanksgiving 1621 -2021
Four Hundred Year Anniversary Ballad
1621 – 2021
By Dikki-Jo Mullen
1621
This strange and wild place still untouched by grime
Company gathered, natives with pilgrims, intruders, to offer thanks
At peace now and welcomed in a new home for a time
Sincere friendship too soon betrayed, perhaps not ever really frank.
2021
Four Centuries now, and so quickly past
Beauty, nature ravished and pillaged, in a dream to barely last
Christmas parade in Wisconsin, far away
Scene set for the last mad frenzy yesterday.
2061?
Yet, offer a Thanksgiving, possible future and hope
For peace, life, joy and liberty to prevail
Through despair, fear and confusion, pilgrims still we grope
Faith that the ideal, a Holy Grail, now not to fail.
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