IREP Magazine's own LeJuane Bowens presents his latest creation. Please, do not read this if you can't handle the truth!
I am more than what I am and way more than I was ever destined to become
I'm made from the many eras of conflict,change,love,rage
Trust,lies,an honest living,and bribes
I am America..................
The land of golden opportunity
The place where freedom is free
The nation where foreigners tell each other about riches and wealth
That goes beyond what the eyes can see
Because I am America............
The land where everyone can be what they want
With people who treat you equally and fair
The place where all of your dreams can come true
For I am America...................
I am America,America I am
But am I America?
That's when I begin to look into myself
And come to terms with the nostalgic fact
That my existence is full of shit like an outhouse shack
Subliminal to my own mental about not being anything like
What I have always been hyped up to be
I was supposed to be made into a place where all men are created equal
But equality comes from the equal hatred from nationality that resides here
Who is White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Basically anything that's consider the opposite
Stating that I am the White man's land
With falsified opinions that's bland
And the crazy concept that has came up over the years was to
Send people back to whence they came with this immigration law
When in actuality,that is one of the foundations I was founded on
And the real people who should claim this land as theirs are the Indians
Yet,the only piece of me that they have left to claim
Is a reservation to live on a reservation
Leaving a trail of tears that reminds that reminds them
That if they wanted sympathy
They can look it up in the dictionary between shit and syphilis
But through all of this,I remain to be America
Collecting artifacts from past leaders and visionaries slain
For wanting to make change
From conspiracy theories to how someone is elected to office
With watered down promises of making me a better country
So they send soldiers overseas to oversee problems not affecting me
It saddens me that when there is another life lost over in somewhere
Besides me,it's stated that they died for me
Even though I never asked them to go in the 1st place
But hey,we can sure get that oil to raise the gas prices huh
Whether you can relate to these things about me or not
One thing will always be for certain
I am more than what I am and way more than what I was destined to become
Because........even with the disgust in my heart for how I am
I am ...........America.
----To Be Continued
(c)2008 LeJuane Bowens
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