It's Alright To Be White - A Guest Poem

A guest poem by P. L. Melbourne

It's alright to be white
It's not wicked or obscene
It's okay to be black, brown or yellow;
To speak and be seen

It's not perverse or malicious
As some want us to believe.
We're all sons of Adam
And daughters of Eve.

So don't shrivel in shame
Because of your race;
The sound of your name,
The colour of your face.

It's fine to be European,
On Japheth's family tree;
From north of the Mediterranean
And West of the Black Sea.

It's awesome to be Anglo-Celtic.
There's reason to celebrate.
It takes millennia of toil and innovation
To make people great:

From the Britons to the Normans,
The union of the states,
The melding of the genomes,
Of rival and of mates.

The monarchs of the realm,
And commoners, each one,
Have weaved a living tapestry
Under the northern sun.

Resilience and resolve
Through famine, plague and war.
Just reward for honest work
Which providence has in store.

The genus of thought:
Objectivity and creativity,
Born of verity and passion
Where the Word set minds free.

The traditions we firmly hold
Which are ethnically unique.
The unspoken niceties
And the language we speak.

That Christian worldview
Which bound us all together.
An immovable morality
Which won't change with the weather.

There's darkness in our history,
When wicked deeds were done.
By preventing their repetition
We show its lessons are being won.

A people who are honourable,
Love truth and honesty,
Will guard their culture's treasures
Against destruction by the enemy.

And we who are descendants
From the colonies of empire
Stoke the fire of remembrance,
Not the fuel of a pyre.

For without a blood heritage
We forget who we are,
Absorbed into the nonentity
Masses of the universal jar.

Condemned to oblivion
By the hostile forces of nil,
We face our furious accusers
Who demand an outrageous bill.

It's time to say, "No more!"
We will no longer conform
Under menacing threats
Of the collectivist swarm

We will keep our Britishness,
Our Anglo-Celtic ways,
Our ancient Christian heritage
All our live-long days.

(Jan./Feb., 2020 - P. L. Melbourne)