by Rosemarie Quintal

Created on: April 03, 2010   Last Updated: April 08, 2010

Each creature or flower of Life you favored

As poetry, Emily, crossed our American Hearts

The lawyer you never had a chance to be saved

In your Verses before you departed

Today as poetry anthologies replace

Your Capital Code, your  Liberty and your Pain

Our Creator endowed you with such Grace

Your Life, Liberty and Pursuit Of Happiness Code retains

Your individual worship. Should your audience ask of each of your Capital Lettered Words

For recognition as others copying them on the Internet turn your Capital Code into small

Letters or comment about such strange punctuation as absurd grammatical calls

I hope your Code revealed will again stand Tall.

And encourage Americans to find their own

Life, Liberty and Pursuit Of Happiness Creator rights

For one may or may not be for all

As your poetry praises the perfection of every creature

No one talks about what life, liberty and pursuit of happiness rights really should feature.

Why don't we?

Your lawyer father never noticed your hidden law career

And others remark that some kind of abuse kept you in the house in fear

All proper nouns became small 25 years after American Freedom

Marked by rightness, the meaning of every proper capitalized word simply fell out of season.

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