America

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America is said to be the land of dreams,
 where others go to be happy and all voices are heard,
where God can be Allah and one is free as a bird
America is education and the shoes on your feet.
America is the food you have to eat.
America is great and good for you.
What if none of this pertains to you?
What if you’re here and live in fear?
It not your fault is it theirs?
What your brothers did have caused you great pain. 
Now all the Americans look at you in vain.
I’m American too.
Oh! no you’re not, didn’t you hear, after that bomb you dropped?
You are not America you aren’t from here 
It wasn’t me I swear!
But it was your people they look like you 
They pray to the same god as you
You act like them you will do the same
No I won’t that is only for the insane.
I was told America was the land of the free,
 where me and my children would be treated equally.
But now I see that they were wrong
I’m harassed constantly because of where I am from,
 but I am America too.
 

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