Revisiting a Saturday Centus

I used to participate in a blog challenge called "Saturday Centus". Bloggers were given a prompt or a picture, maybe with a required writing style, and were to create a 100 word post from that. I was looking for a different post and stumbled on this one....

I thought I'd throw it out there again! Much of it seems apropos. Although were I to write it again, I do see some areas that I feel don't mesh with our current political climate. Do you see anything?

From the Saturday Centus, June 29, 2013: 

 

It is time for another Saturday Centus. Jenny* has provided us with a picture prompt again this week. Appropriately, for our Nation's "Birthday", this week's picture is Old Glory.... an Old Glory who has seen better days.

Jenny provides us with the rules:

Write 100 words about the picture

Style of writing: Any

There she is, 

tattered and torn...

Some say, like the flag, 

our Democracy is worn.

Our forebears came together

and fought for our rights.

Now selfishness rules

and apathy blights.

The Government legislates,

And the courts uphold.

Laws seem to contradict

the ideals of old.

Their measures split us apart

like the threads on the seam

of the flag in the picture.

Is this our American dream?

I say it’s time 

to revisit the plan.

Recall freedom of choice,

and justice for each man.

Tattered, or whole

the flag is still there.

Remember the values.

Show our nation we care.

* Jenny Matlock posted these challenges on her blog. Her last post was in 2016. In that post she talked about her pain and chronic illness. I suspect that Jenny has passed. God bless you Jenny, for all you did to encourage and challenge so many people.