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Oh how joyful would it be…
If America stayed true to its promise and everyone was truly free.
Oh how joyful would it be…
If you weren’t already in jail,
I do not decide who I am, for who I am is decided by another
Some may think I strive to harm, but some may see me as their brother.
Dear Beautiful:
From then until now
Your scars still show
Your tears are dried
and when people speak
it hurts.
Dear Beautiful:
You think you are so unnatractive
O say can you see
Just how far we’ve come.
The injustice in our country
Is a battle far from won.
People line the streets
What does it mean to be free?
To be on your own
To be left alone
To not be under any control
Are people really free in America?
Of course
We're the land of the free
Everyone is welcome
What does it mean to be free?
To be on your own
To be left alone
To not be under any control
Are people really free in America?
Of course
We're the land of the free
Everyone is welcome
On the occasionally sunny day,
when it does not rain
The Smiler walks out into the blue of today,
and bike rides to the city
The Smiler is one who,
sees with open eyes
Remember mommy,
how we would smile at rainbows?
Seeing them reminded both of us,
that the gray color of uncertainty
Has parted.
They say I’m the devil
but I cannot see
they tell me I’m poison
“then how can I breathe”
how can my life be so useless to them
I felt my eyes shut tight and my hands begin to rise,
towards my ears, trying to block out the ghastly cries and
heinous shrieks of those who had
nothing more to hold on to, nothing more to try and survive for,
I’m sorry people who look like me hurt you,
I’m sorry people who look like me whipped you,
I’m sorry people who look like me took away your freedom,
I’m sorry people who look like me brought pain and anguish daily,
This world is cruel hard hellish place
There is nothing that we can do about that
Not really
Not until we stop letting ourselves be cruel and hard and hellish
I look at the faces around me and I see
A prophet crossed the white line
And he did not eat a swine.
Disgusted by booze,
He kept out the Jews.
After that he drank palm wine.
