~Our America~

This country belongs to all of us...

I love America with all

its flaws, all its statutes

and all it's challenging laws.

I love the snow I've never seen,

the mountains I will never climb,

the languages I may never speak,

I love America and all it's diversity.

I love America's unrealistic policies, their we are the world attitude.

Republican, Liberals, Democrats may not share the same views, but we all struggle to live by the same boisterous rules.

I love the sandy beaches, parks and tourist traps, I love being able to take a nap without bombs exploding against my back.

I love our armed forces even at times when they fall off course, because as I look around the world things could definitely be worse.

I love all this new technology, the power of the mind is exuberantly free, one of the greatest gifts to humanity.

I even love watching cable tv, and this internet continues to mesmerize me.

Its said in America you can be all that you can be, and yes, I completely agree, I am daily amazed at some of the things I see.

I love the different ethnicities though some of there religious practices seem a bit oblique, I think its just a part of being unique.

I love floating around in this melting pot, and cherish what I have though it doesn't seem like a lot, yet I am secure in knowing there is plenty of room for me in the pot.

Most of all I love freedom of speech, because sometimes I just want to shout at all the atrocities plaguing humanity.

Yes, this country belongs to all of us, and its up to you and I to embrace it wholeheartedly, if not for anything more than true love, passion, and long term solidarity.
Original Draft:April 4, 2014-(edited 8/10/2017)
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