A New Red, White, and Blue (an original poem)

Below is a poem (a ballad, if you want to become technical) that I wrote for my English class. Enjoy!


Lady Liberty lost her crown,
a torch is all she bears.
An economy without money,
a church without prayers.

Streets are full of hatred.
Schools are full of slack.
What happened to America?
When are we coming back?

We are the land of the free,
but that is in our heads.
It's in our hearts that matters,
but we'd rather end up dead.

We fought against our king,
for our negro brothers we slew,
we have a habit of kicking out
when we were immigrants too.

"The Middle East is awful!"
but we're not prejudiced, we swear.
Our heads are parted from the foreigners
to tell our kids "beware!"

We have everything we wanted now,
Our rights, our votes, our pay.
We would give our anything
to know that they will stay.

We are America:
Land of the Free (broken and torn)
What happened to America?
A new reality has been born.