America, My Home

America

Land of the free

Home of the Brave

Except, no one is free

And it’s full of Cowards

Cowards who would shoot you when you’re running away and say they felt threatened

Cowards who would shoot you in front of your kids

Cowards who would shoot a kid

And you can’t be free here

This is America

Where the white man rules

Emphasis on white

Emphasis on man

For if you are a woman

Or a person of color

You can easily be stripped of your rights

You can have everything taken away in America

Home of the Free

Where you can be a slave

Where you can be placed in a concentration camp

Where you can be wrongfully imprisoned.

Wrongfully killed

And they say it’s your fault

I hate America

I am Black

And I am a Woman

And I am trapped

Trapped in a place where I love my home

But I hate my country

My country

The country that hates me

I hate it back

But I’m trapped

Because I love it too

America

I hate you