Beware of Man who Dressed in Green

© John Antonius Tabah

A man dressed in green walked
Onto the Capitol's grounds.
Throwing his medals over the wall
He forever tarnished their meaning for all.

Powerfully, he stood and talked
On April third, nineteen seventy-one.
Convinced that he was right,
Followers' medals shadowed his over the wall

Today he stands on the Capitol's grounds
With tarnished medals polished by words.
His medals glittering for the camera's view
And he claims another is lying to you.

Vets wounded by his words
carried tears for those who died
When this eloquent man told his lie
That their fallen had medals with no worth.

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