Star Spangled Desperation
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Star Spangled Desperation
By Aliyah American Horse
This is America
Let that flow through your veins
electrify your red
white
and blue blood
This is America
One nation under God
bound together by ideas
and stories
seems sewn from pacific
to atlantic
like one big freedom quilt
Liberty rings through the Rocky Mountains
and across the Great Plains
but nobody can hear
as our dissonance
rings louder
This is star spangled desperation
This is Oh Say Can You See that this nation
is falling apart
the further we are from each other
Today is the day
we get up
from our seats in front of the t.v
watching Americans argue like Americans
Pledge allegiance to community
trust the people as we the people
its our turn to step up
grab your neighbors hand
whether he screams red or blue
To bind our nations wounds
Todays the day we change
we step outside a box we have created for ourselves
to come together in a time
where togetherness is of the past
This is America
Let that flow through your veins
electrify your red
white
and blue blood
This is America
Star Spangled Desperation was written for a project in collaboration with Civic Nebraska in light of the recent presidential election. While the party you choose to affiliate with is your own opinion, I wanted to write something to bring both sides together. Something that, no matter what color you bleed, you can relate. Unfortunately today, our country is so extremely divided and we agree on soo little. It is important for us to come together every once in a while and realize, we all bleed the same color in the end.