Out.
My home is beautiful
It's very bright in rows
Sunlight filters through pride
Paints the streets rainbow
My home is up north
Where winter winds blow
Where snowmen greet each other yearly
Raised from death by the snow
My home has many freedoms
I can say what I want about power
I can buy death machines
Or I can buy houses in an hour
My home is where I belong
Where red blue and white stripes fly
So doesn't it cut deeply
To find out everything was a lie?
My home is ugly
Forests fall to rolls of concrete
Red runs rivers down the sidewalk
As yellow badges yell for "peace"
My home is suffocating
Two winters with no snow
The dead are gone with no return
And no one cares at all
I'm shackled to the dirt
To work "full time" at 26 hours
Rent and bills and disabilities curse me
And I fall farther and farther each month
I want out of this place
I want to pack my bags
My home is a disgrace
And constantly it nags
"We the people," we learned in school
The same place we were taught of glory
All while this same country builds destruction
Makes enemies out of the dead and gorey
I need to stay and fight
This isn't right
The rope's too tight
I want to take flight
Run run run away to somewhere else
To see the stars and still get to work
To wave my flag without fear of death
To proudly say that I love my home
Without a thousand disclaimers for you to scroll
But wouldn't that be calling for arms, to say that?
We haven't come to that yet, right?
We have to fight, but in what way?
We have to win, someday
We have to be strong, while most are weak
We have to begin, to seek
To thrive in a new world where we can say
"Stop the bloodshed!" and it goes away
We have to get there
We have to make there
We have to build there
We have to create it somewhere
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
We have to
WE HAVE TO-
i want to rest. but i shouldn't.
i want to eat. I haven't the cash.
i want to sing. but my voice goes to helping.
i want to be. but there's no greater cost than existing.
especially in a world not built for you.
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