From the Publisher Werner Poegel:
I wrote this poem to get one idea across to as many people as possible. While our nation was founded with many mistakes, our country has been one of the most successful experiments in the history of the World. However, its strength is derived from when its people respect and listen to one another. To achieve our true strength as a nation, we must work together in earnest.
Strength of a Worthy Nation by Werner Poegel
| Columbus Day of Fourteen ninety-two A ship its sails to here they blew, Discovered what would be America. If a person, could be named Herika. |
| A nation so imperfectly founded, Now by vast blue oceans bounded. Paradigm of experiments successful, Citizens of their freedoms boastful. |
| Direction ebbs and flows with time Erasing not that perfect paradigm, But reminding all just how fragile, Even what’s strong is breakable. |
| Protect its substance fervently. Guard its good preventively. A nation is what people make it, Unless the weak somehow forsake it. |
| Listen to your neighbors and friends, Have patience now and make amends. Solutions lie in collaboration. Such the strength of a worth nation. |