Let us walk together...through the valley of tears...
............Manifest Destiny
She rose and stared beyond the
unknown,
unseeming capturing and claiming as her own,
but regardless of
each seed sown,
she swerves with determined aim,
to claim
and to proclaim..
But leaving a trail of her kind,
while the aliens are force to drift behind.....
..
by Karen N. Barker
The National Library of Poetry, Editor's Choice Award for 1995