The Playing Field

Does that star-spangled banner yet wave

O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

It waves

but that flag creates shade

in my community

In the light that it craves

 

There's no light without the spark

An education provides

But the color of our skin can determine

how much help, if ever, arrives

 

Standardize what's taught from state to state

From district to district

So poor funding can't be used to descriminate

So my friends don't become convicts

kids trying to make money fast instead of smart

because the land of the brave and the home of the free

doesn't offer the same start it does to you

as it does to me

 

 

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
My community
My country

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