America, I cannot close my eyes Nor sheathe my skin color- Which is that of which she was Built upon- Which was that where my ancestors Were left under supremacists.
Look out and see the restless Peoples rising with tides Flourishing under nothing's banner, How the planet has shrunken Destroying proud origins And lamenting the absence Of patriotic diversity.
America I cannot look Out in the wilderness of words That cross this poet daily And not fathom a poem that Crosses borders and enigmatic Skin tones, that water breaks Itself upon the stone, Yet blood would stain its surface, Yes the sacrifice of fools.
I cannot close my eyes Nor change my skin, Here in the land of dreams And the spinster's lamenting Polishing blue and red tears.
America, much angst is flowing From open wounds from yesterday And tomorrow that comes crashing At the precipice of dawn's early light.
I hear your pain America, I watch with a selfish pride At the pain we share, The differences that unite us, The words that explode in freedom, Your stars are not lost Upon the impenetrable sky.
In your depths you are one, In the bitter difference of eachother Filled with children and uncertainties, We shall not fall gently.....
America, I cannot close my eyes, I see the beauty of our nation, America I cannot change my skin, Nor would I care to.
America, beautiful mutilated rose, I am convicted as a patriotic Fool, America I cannot close my eyes....