Onward Now

Charlie Kirk at the 2024 Young Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, Texas (June 7, 2024)

Night had fallen heavy

On that fair and fearsome ship

When fell our Captain Charlie

As the cracking of a whip.

Amidst a sea of mourning

A cackle howled against the prow.

The sailors, they were warning

Of a storm ahead the bow.

I saw with my own eyes

The deep froth and rend asunder

To a hydra whose heads did rise,

Men and sails shadowed under.

The ghost of our Captain

Or the Spirit alive in he

Railed against the tempest din,

“My blood for the ship of the free.”

The roar of a thousand swords

Loosed in the ocean spray

Sung with the battered boards

Their tale of victory.

She sails still, ever on,

With we her weary crew

Toward that eternal dawn

And toward our Captain true.

Dedication: To Charlie Kirk—Martyr, Father, Patriot.