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Once Upon a Time
I used to love this Country
The land of the free
And the home of the brave
But I look to the TV
And see children locked in cages
I look around as I walk the streets of the city
I see people afraid,
Afrid of those around them
At school there's conversations
Aout if we'll be next
We're supposed to worry about
College applications and jobs
Not if we'll be shot in our classrooms
That's what happens now
Adults around us say
We're too young to understand the world around us
And how these problems don't involve us,
Yet here we are
The ones the issues effects most
We're immature,
We don't truly care about all of this
But if they aren't trying to fix things
Aren't they describing themselves?
I used to love his country
But now,
It has the brave silencd or buried
And the free are the rich and white
I watch the flag hang half raised
And hope one day
I'll love this country again
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One day I was annoyed with everything that is going on in this country, the only way I could express those feelings were through words.