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All-American Immigrants

Let freedom flay    
our gluttonous memory      
      
Replay forgotten history;      
an infant survives only      
by fleeing his country        
       
Religious freedom        
birthed on new soil        
of humble beginnings--      
natives opening hands      
as wings to immigrants        
       
Let it sever callous minds      
greed, apathy      
self-serving hypocrisy      
resource-driven profit      
over aesthetic beauty      
       
Let freedom flay        
our ignorant blindness        
short-term remembrance        
and deliberate corruption        
breeding dirty politics      
       
Let it liberate Liberty      
that she once again sing      
       
Welcome in, welcome in      
you tired, poor, huddled masses        
wretched refuse of foreign lands      
yearning to breathe free
     
       
Let Freedom flay our heart      
to the very core of truth  
beyond division and walls        
       
Then let it ring      
'From sea to shining sea      
from every mountainside      
       
Let freedom ring'
     
       
Be us Native, Brown      
Black, or White        
       
We're All-American Immigrants  
~
Author's Note
Tear down the walls
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