America the Great Scholarship
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We pride ourselves on being safe
but the only ones who can comfortably
walk down the street
are the ones crumbling the roads beneath
the rest of us
money being the only way of communication
America
The beautiful,
Broken promise.
Inscribed forever on
A plaque more cracked
Than the Bell:
America the Great is a place
Said to be the greatest space
For values idealized by our forefathers.
Values such as speech and the individual
An unsettling unrest in a country known for peace.
Manslaughter but not if the cop was confronting someone of color.
It´s the Land of the free and the home of the brave
Yet we are not free when we are bound by hate
A mothers heart is torn out when her son is deployed
U.S.A, the land of the Founding Fathers
or is it the land of the American Originals?
This is the country of extreme responders
every decade a new movement
the country where I am Free.
A group of kids make a political joke
This group of kids call themselves “woke”
But what if I spoke
But what if I broke
The silence
The violence
All you'll see is defiance
America the Great?
America has this image, where it says "All are welcome".
But once you come here and you are not white and a Christian
then it is not great
In 2015 hate crimes against race/ethinc background rose to 59.2%,
Dear America,
I miss our sunlit days and endless lawns,
The way dusk lit up our concrete suburb.
We held hands in the perfumed grass that night.
The national anthem says,
"Land of the Free"
but we are not free.
How can we be when
Just being ourselfves
gets us ridiculed.
When we can't love who we want
This country has its history
One that is forever stitched into the flag
That flies high, swaying to each breeze that passes by
But can it ever be great to those who live every day
2016 was a year of patriotism
Fifteen years since 9/11
Over one hundred Olympic medals
And the election of President 45 that is changing many American lives
To our country's fathers I write,for my father and many others: My country or is it?Land of the free? Bullshit.This is no country to me.This is no land of the free.The 'free' here feel contained.
