The Crown is a poem about the shadow of oppression we allow into our lives when we make the choice to love.  Power translates into position in the world and evolves into history, history being a series of remembered names that evoke pictures and stories.

The Crown

Men of power, men of fame
Men of glory and of shame
Women of fortune and of gain
Women of silence and of pain

Let's go down to Dallas
Sit upon a grassy knoll
Let's go down to Dallas
Deep inside a nation's soul

People of conflict and despair
People of wisdom and of prayer
Children of soldiers and of saints
Children of courage and restraint

For every death for every crime
There is a price paid in time
And betrayal in our youth
Will plant the seed the fruit of truth

So let's go down to Dallas
Sit upon a grassy knoll
Let's go down to Dallas
Deep inside a nation's soul

For every death for every crime
There is a price paid in time

Dallas

"He loved a thousand women / But he never felt a thing / That's why they call him Casanovocain"

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