What makes a flag? Is it simple cloth given symbol? Or perhaps does it deign something more? A universal ideal of thought, But the same symbol has many meanings. A star, a light, shining in the dark Yet dark and full of blood Does this star mean both or only one? Is it the blood of babes, Or is it the blood of a martyr? Hero of time? But of that symbol it’s apparent opposite Of hammer and sickle Does it represent the oppression? The death and the fear? Yet some could claim it stands for neither But only for cooperation and comradary. Both may be true yet what could be instead Is that that truth is the tome And the mind is the eye that reads it. In any event we all be of mankind So let’s put aside plain symbols we hide behind And instead work to free one another From the chains of those who bind them.