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Oh, America
October 14, 2016
Oh, America.
I’ve choked on your leaden waters and swam in your dirty rivers.
Oh, America.
I’ve held your flag high but now my arms are aching.
Oh, America.
I’m free of your shackles but my heart is still bound.
Oh, America.
I’ve stained the flag red with blood, blue with sadness, white with scraggly bits of hope.
Oh, America.
You erased the parts protecting me.
Oh, America.
Our feet don’t burn on grass like it does on asphalt.
Oh, America.
I’ve grown gardens from those daisies you shot out of guns.
Oh, America.
Only the wind should sway in your trees.
© Conor G., Harvard, MA
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