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[title] => Everyone's Longed Version Of The American Dream
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[bodytext] => Its easy for you to hide behind your complicated phrase Assuming we don't truly hear As we sit in an idled daze The American dream: all eyes glazed But a few actually do listen And have noticed that we've lain our trust in a man who thinks that, while their violence is wrong Ours is perfectly just. A violent-minded person When one is struck, its right to strike back Families dressed in all black Nothing can replace what they lack A son, a daughter, a sister, a bother a memory, a lifetime (cut far too short) A sudden-death point, on a desert court Ironically, the sky is still blue Old is still replaced by new But peace is still long overdue Children of freedom Get back to the states In cold wooden crates Their eyes shut tight So icy, So pale It makes me wonder If they realized That the day they set sail they had so much at stake Their lives, their love As families' hearts' break Maybe they saw it Once they arrived The American dream: to not make it out alive So this is the coveted American way? Children dying by the day Under a tyrant's order A man not fit for a name but this isn't the time to point fingers and blame It's time to end this sudden-death game What, truly, is the American dream? As red white and blue rips at the seam. [comments] => 4 [counter] => 240 [topic] => 8 [informant] => DeathByLove [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 0 [ratings] => 0 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => AmericanTragedy )
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