Driving Dixie Down
Lee Circle has but a truncated stump
From which the harsh judgement
Of political correctness has effaced
The great offense of a patriot whose mortal sin
Was to defend those who saw, thought different.
Caught once more in a campaign
Relentless as the March, ruthless
Destruction of a way of life,
A social order.
The indictment not of him,
but a revised history, never heard 'til now,
that he was later raised in tribute
to a cause he never owned.
No accident those preferring the indictment
oppose his honest cause, the ideal of states united
promote instead The definite article
of conformity in a unitary state.
And fitting to the times their prosecution of the case
signals their virtue, masking the values of their project,
perhaps most from themselves.
And once again, the General is displaced, homeless.
His place an overflowing grave,
monument to his victors' ambitions.