America the What?

We sing America the Great

but really, how great is America right now?

We say we stand together

but why do we fight and argue as often as we do?

We fight for change

yet when things change we rebel against them.

If racism is truly coming to an end

then why are we building walls to keep people out?

No, not just Trump's wall.

Walls in school, walls around houses, walls around neighborhoods, walls around our eyes, walls around our brains and walls around our hearts.

We say that we don't see others differently

but here we are picking out people's weaknesses day in and day out.

No one likes lies

So it's time to stop singing them out and start living truth.

Let's make our hope and dreams reality

so we can sing words that are true.

Home of the brave and land of the free.

This poem is about: 
My country
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