Say What You Want To Say, I Love This Land
Say what you want to say,
I love this land
From sea to shining sea
Welcoming sinners and saints.
It wasn't the indigenous Indians turning their backs
It wasn't the land that hung and dismembered us
It wasn't these shores that drowned our dreams;
The winds of change never held its breath, while
Alchemist "white supremist" dreamt up injustices to men.
Say what you want to say,
I love this land my ancestors cultivated
Here we stand transparent
Transforming market of our mind, while
Shame stood shameless
Hugged podium carved by the poor.
The silent sound of ancient tears, like
Rivers running from debris of the enemy;
Poseidon would be pissed; drunk with disgust
The "Transpopulantic" passage a graveyard,
The ghost of the innocent took no hostages -
Who would build bridges to reciprocity?
Say what you want to say,
I love this land
Vast as the Atlantic Ocean;
Who will hold garden gates ajar?
Remorse is like a rose, scented or unscented.
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Copyright © Iris E. Sankey- Lewis | Year Posted 2021
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