Washington Crossing the Delaware

Crossing the River meant so much more than that

It meant securing liberty from the British

and providing for a bright and optimistic future

for millions of Americans two centuries later

No one ever said it was easy

looking out at the freezing river

speckled with blocks of jagged ice

reflecting the winter sun

and taking in the smell of the cool dry salty Chesapeake air

as the freezing mist shot onto your face like needles 

It would have been very easy to tell the General to look for someone else to help cross the river

and save yourself from exposure to the freezing winter air

but the call of freedom carries much more weight than a day's comfort

So as they set out to cross the Delaware

hearing the semi frozen waves crashing uneasily against the small wooden row boat

they were not thinking about themselves

but rather the millions of Americans 

who can now taste the very freedom George and his partners fought for

when they Crossed the Delaware