Nonpartisan Love Song
Allegiance - adore a nation
 not just one party: population.
 Trade valentines across the aisle,
 collaborate, hold hands, and smile.
 We'll think as one, or two we fall
 and not in love but overall.
 Three:  be true to truth's intents,
 not merely your constituents.
 Four, before you say, "I do,"
 and cast your vote as red or blue,
 know history attends your vows
 and every premise you espouse.
 Five:  let's kiss all PACs goodbye,
 return to grassroots.  Six:  defy
 all anti-democratic ways.
 Through Constitution we'll appraise
 then seven:  fend off tyranny
 and threats of all-out anarchy.
 You heart this country?  Help it last.
 Eight: let's all learn from the past.
 Nine: be mine, of theirs - for all -
 you represent The People's call
 for process, progress, parity,
 inclusion, wellness, clarity,
 some proof you care beyond your term
 to guard our rights and reaffirm
 these liberties with faithfulness
 as we pursue our happiness,
 Ten:  reflect Old Glory's hues
 those stripes and stars unite our views
 admitting difference to unite
 with validation through the night
 through early light of dawning sun.
 That symbol stands for everyone:
 our home, the brave, this land, the free,
 the rest.  Please tell me:  can you see?
Nonpartisan Love Song © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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201 words.  Valentine Red White and Blue prompt challenge - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2739460-Valentine-and-Red-White-and-Blue
Submitted: January 18, 2020