United States

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This is what you call a united nation?

Having homeless people stand in the precipitation?

With war veterans on streets,

asking for change and things of that nature?

If this is united I want to know how united feels...

how it should feel when its real.

But that society can never be

because the world is corrupt and full of greed.

What happened to the brotherhood?

The bond visible between gang members reppin' their hood,

the protective friend saying "I wish somebody would"...

Its dead.

Its every man for himself in most people's heads.

And if you think about it ignorance isn't that far ahead,

but hey! Who's counting?

Counting the numerous problems that middle class or low income families are going through.

Nobody cares including you!

We're lazy.

We don't work hard.

We say its too rough?

Well I'll speak for the rest of us,

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Prices are raised and cares forgotten as we get set up for failure.

But we're united right?

So united that support is lacking,

people are backstabbing,

and society is completely slacking?

I would be lying if I said I feel united with society.

I'm more like a feline stuck on a high branch in a tall tree,

praying I don't fall cause' I know no one will catch me.

But how can you be there for me when you aren't as understanding as you should be?

How can you say you're down for somebody but in the next moments flee?

How can I say this country is united truthfully?

I can't.

Those words are sarcasm for the ears and covered lies for the eyes.

That sarcasm and those lies are things I hate,

things I despise.

So I'm here to devise a plan that this nation's name be changed from "United" to "Divided"

from the middle class feelings that I have provided.

 

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