A Price

This land will never be free
Soaked with innocent blood
The cost of millions of lives stain America's hands
I cannot celebrate freedom built on enslavement and murder
These fireworks cannot drown out the gunshots
I hear the children cry
Is this what "freedom" is worth?

This poem is about: 
My community
My country
Our world

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