Our Country

by Carla Benser   Feb 5, 2017


When I look back on my younger days. I never knew that something so beautiful could turn to darkness. When we were growing up our generation did not worry about the color of skin and how that one day the world would become so harsh to one another. Now my head is spinning from all the hatred, politics, and the crimes that are going on in the world today. The world is changing everyday, but we still need to fight together and not against each other. We are still a nation that believes in faith, love and respect. We need to teach the next generation that it does not matter whether we are black, white, gay, straight, single or married that we are all God's children and we breath the same air. We need to take a stand together and fight for what is right. Teddy Roosevelt, Martin Lurther King, and the soliders before us who made it so we could have our freedom, our constitutional rights, and to be able stand for what we believe in. When the hatred is lost and love is finally found again that will be the day that our flag flies high and we have our country back.

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  • 7 years ago

    by JCCaramelBarbie

    powerful poem and great that i read ur experience unfornately for me.. my familys generation always had to worry about race because we are black. I respect that u admit ur entilement in this poem,. we are all God's Children and ahall not go backwards but forwards with love. with our worry of race we wouldnt have Martin Luther King., and soldiers like my Uncles and father who fought so ur family members wouldnt have to and so on.. you know again hope i dont sound racist or attackful cuz thats not my intentions hope u read some of my poems so we can learn form one anothers experience and break this race gap