Rags

(This poem is based on Langston Hughes's "Let American Be America Again.")

A nation built on liberty?
A nation built on freedom? No, rather
A nation built on tyranny,
Ruled by despots, where no one else matters.

(This nation is in tatters.)

No longer are we individuals.
No longer is different encouraged.
Be the same, adopt our rituals.
Here, all other nations have merged.

(God bless America, with the lady's robes in tatters.)