Red, White, and Blue

The colors of our flag Do not stand for freedom Anymore. Red shall not be to honor the blood spilled by our troops But rather the blood Spilled by those who wake up every day in fear Of half the country And the man propped up by millions of hateful minds It shall be the color of that phantom blood that gushes from The piercing pain of the what ifs? Red shall not be the courage of our country But rather the color of destruction soon to come Red skies Blazing fire Pre-apocalyptic dust settles over Us. White shall not be the color of the absence of evil But rather, It's new hue. And the elephants can stampede us to the ground, Remind us, As they kick mud around our bodies, That our first black president Is handing over the White House to a man Endorsed by the KKK The resurgence of white supremacy Brings us back to World War II Yet no one heeds the warning. Blue shall not be the color of patriotism and loyalty But rather the tears shed By many in some lands, By few in others. Tears that fall on The rainbow flag, The hijab, The ragged piece of paper with #blacklivesmatter scrawled on it in ink The dusty duffel bag packed In order to cross the border Packed by those we dub “aliens” Though inside their organs are identical to ours Red, White, And blue. A divided country that is Dividing each and every one of us In half.