Can you hear them?
Listen
Can you hear them?
It’s the natives crying as they're eradicated and displaced.
It's cracks from the gun that everyone owns
It's the rumbling stomachs of homeless veterans
It's the weeping of a mother who found her child hanging
Listen
Can you hear them?
It's the ping of a retweet for that malicious post
It's the ballads sung for every fallen white american
It's the angry and pained screams in riot
caused by a black child shot down by cop
It's the sirens coming for our corpses
It's what we call a perfect country
It's America
This poem is about:
My community
My country
Our world