American Heartache

I am the pain that resides 
Deep, so deep inside 
Inside America, the great 
I am the American heartache
From a deep, old, long ago 
Copious fields of cotton across Georgia 
Through and beyond Jim Crow 
To a new technologized New York filled 
with streets of gold 
The sullen heart still aches
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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