Confused Landowners
A united states flag stretched
Across the field
Cut to be the shape
Of its boundaries
The faces
Red with patriotic fire
And drink
Cheer and wobble and cheer
Because WE own this land
WE are here now
And the red and the blue and the white
Shelter
Is OURS.
I watch a few men
Ramble around the flag, stumble,
Scream, chant
“God Bless America”
I want to open my mouth
And tell them
How wrong it all is,
That
Nobody should own
Any piece of land
Larger than their home,
that the borders here
and
around the world
keep us from truly understanding each other
that
we are
US
and they are
THEM
and we are all so very afraid of
THEM
That aren’t in this disgusting
Shape of a flag.
I want to yell and scream
But nobody would listen.
Nobody would
Care.
So I go home
And write this here
It’s all I can do
As I wait for things around the world
To catch up
With the ideas in the
World.
