The birth of a nation

Oh, delightful and grand

The firecrackers boom

Across this great land

The upper hand they scream

For the flag, they hang high

The colors are seen across the sky

They inspire all types of cultures to come

For many people flocked for this new found freedom

But for us, the chains bring us over many seas.

 

With jobs that only color can take

The upper hand backs clothed with such grace

While we cover ours with a blanket of shame

Hope seems as a light that flickers with disdain

Dimming oh so much quicker

A top hat came to fight

For freedom was granted

It is only our right

Although the doubt grew firm

The freedom bells ring wholly and true

For are the chains really removed by you?

 

The decades they pass

For the nation is stronger

 the pride is blatant and forever uncovered

For the separate but equal

May never seem true

The chains, they restrict us for what we can do

 

The surface sees damage

For our color has no change

Not only are we isolated

But we are given strange praise

The news they watch like an eagle in the sky

For mother liberty is only on the white side

Refusal becomes costume

Heartbreak yet true

The color they see will never wash over you

The chains only rust but never break free

 

Lightness seems upon us

Our demands finally met

For our dreams, they came true

Though trust is never easily granted

Could our color finally be part of the red, white, and blue

Or do the chains constrict our soul power too?

 

We stand alongside one another

Only turn our backs and find a dead brother

The eagle out again

But this time only to break

And to seal our original fate

The separation seems daunting

Our comfort zone gone so soon

The chains latch on and won’t let go of you

 

The glory only lasted for a tick of a clock

For we were right back to the slave block

We breathe our final breath

For we can only hold it so long

Uncle Sam laughs

For the corruption is so very strong

Caged in cell

For this is nothing new

Our color trapped us in our own special hell

The chains no longer invisible to the nation

As we stand tall in our new type of segregation

 

There is no escape

The chains they hover throughout our existence

They seem but to gravitate

The clamps only tighten

The weight heavier than ever

For the nation, we stay could never repay

The freedom we never gained

And the lives that they will forever be hanged

For the chains never change