I Am American

I am American as long as I have any choice from the Mississippi to Illinois, I share my voice an immigrant’s son, a mother’s child from sea to sea, the last frontier smiled A twinkling eye, political liberty rejoices a democratic life takes morals and active voices don’t feel in group, I think and defile I am American I love my country for more than the illusions of choice or the foundation of rights that we at intervals must foist from great east and west we reconciled not in symbols but chains and exiles I am American