longer.blue

No, I will not stand for the country who forgot the meaning of its colors, Not when the path we’ve taken consists of killing all of the others. Happy 4th of July! What is even meant by that anymore? I spend every day living in fear and asking what I’m living for? For a collective of people who won’t, don’t, can’t understand, The pleas of those around them who weren’t born a fellow man? We were raised to be proud of our country, being fed lies like they were pills, Raised to ignore the rest of the world, it shouldn’t concern you, it’s that thought that kills. Some of us spend their days by beating down the hands of the ones who ask why, For the rich, the powerful, the ones who have never needed our help, that’s where they’ll comply They’ll turn out in droves, decked out in their red, white, and blue And get down on their knees not knowing what else to do, There’s so many of them, lacking in the knowledge to make proper decisions Who will spend the rest of their lives feeding into the corporate backed fiction. They often don’t have the capacity or willingness to learn, Instead, they wait for their riches, when it will never be their turn. They sit at the front of the lines like pawns in their chess game, But despite being at the front? They’re not the ones who should be receiving all the blame. Societies problems at the bottom were created by those at the top, We’re in too deep; their plans have gone far enough we’re afraid they’ll never stop. Protest! Freedom of speech! All the things that have been said, But we exist in a country that will happily paint the roads red, With the blood of those will did not buy into their wheels, And instead decided to strive for their own life, their own desires, their ideals. We exist for a country that loves to be discriminate, Against any one but them who doesn’t fit the existing template. Land of the free home of the brave? No, home for the rich white, and the blue of those who concave. So, I’ll hold off my celebration of today for years or more, Until this joke of a country remembers, what we were taught it was created for.