Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis

By: Chisimdi Christiana

America refuses to be American

Refuses to live up to the ideal

Of the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave

Constantly lowering the bar to return to the Home of the Slave

America refuses to be American

Marching to make herself great again

For a time when she was built on the labor of my people and the stolen land filled with the blood of the Indigenous people

America refuses to be American

Testing the bounds of her Democracy until she reaches the edge of having no more, no morals

American refuses to be American

As what she really wants is for her people to think they are free

instead of thinking freely

America refuses to be American

Because she wants your poor, your tired, and your weary

So she can take advantage of them-covering their eyes with magafolds so they can't see clearly

America refuses to be American

As she stands up like a hypocrite preacher in the pulpit

Professing her love for God all the while hating the People God created

But wait……maybe she isn’t refusing to be American

Maybe she is just being the lie that always was America