My National Anthem

Wasteland America
 

Land of wasted love
Land of haste
Land of abundance
(Behind wallS of illuSion)
Land of denial
HySteria, and political liarS

Wasteland America
 

Land of wasted Dreams
Land of poverty
Glitter hope in magazines
Filled with sex pages
And erotic scenery
Homogenized land of commodity
Destroyed individuality
Capital ads and tv screens created 
To sell you coke and "sexy beer"
Where your fellow peers lie in fear
Of being poked and prodded by 
batons and needles

Because that one hit just feels so close, 
that you can't 
escape the point of it

Can't 
escape the truth 
That you're living in treachery,
America:
 

This is the country in which I was born
Where a child screams in online porn
Where sex trafficking victims are forced to serve 
Undeniable acts of torture
Brutally
Dehumanized 
The only boundaries —
Cosmetic lines

While living creatures
Are shredded to pieces
And human beings
Submit to slavery
I ask myself
Why? How?
Why ... do we have brains 
To think of elaborate schemes
Yet we sit in apathy?
How ... do I allow this to persist
How is it
My fellow peers, citizens or not
Can allow this
System to persist?
A perpetual cycle of pSychological abuse 
Intolerance of culture and creativity
Where we flush away gallons of water
While others walk miles ... for the nearest pump
The nearest pump 10 
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀miles 
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀away ...

WaSteland America,
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Oh Say can you See?