Sweet smelling peaches

Rot off the vine

In a gluttonous country

Filled with the divine

Under the roots

Of that flourishing tree

Lie the bones of those who built this country

Those whose skin color sealed their fate

A life without laughter

A life treated like cattle

Not quite human

But in America

We like to forget

For “Everything is equal now!”

Lets dance and sing

And never remember

What our shining towers stand on

Never remember

That the railroads we so proudly run along our coveted coasts

Were built by those who we decided were less than us

People who came to our county

On rumors of gold

And instead given the spoils of a selfish love

As we have grown

Our hate has bloomed with us

We despise the other

Because we are so settled into

our life of lies and servitude

to forces that we believe so great

Shall this forever be our fate?

Can we begin anew

Reject the forces that we believe so true

And stay true to what we said that we would do

We must pursue

“Liberty and Justice for All”

We must chose

To pay for the past

And be accepting of all

Change our society

Change our gun toting, drug pushing, body shaming, wall building ways

Change what it means be be American

Change us