America the great?
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Broad stripes and bright stars
A country, supposedly ours,
America
Told to be different but never taught how
Told you only live once but to study now
Told there are social norms that I cannot disavow
The land of the free,
but am I free to be me?
Can I walk safely late at night.
or travel as I please?
America will be blighted,
when politicians are short-sighted.
America is the new China
I was built up like
The great wall of china
I am strong, powerful, impenetrable,
Fortified heavily until nothing can hurt me.
But like the great wall of china,
Watching the water trickle down the side of the crevasse,
Squirrels scuttle along the leaves hiding Fall's bounty,
I'm filled with awe at the beauty of natured formed.
The hike back barely seems strenuous while
He marches side by side
With the one who cries, "Equality!"
Enraged, they wreck and thrash.
Their lips read, "White trash!"
Across the lane she stands,
Blindfolded to the carnage behind.
