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American Eden v.2 [revised] (Free verse) by SupremeDreamer
It isn't about how
one man fails societies code of morality,
blaming his drunken father
and whore mother who were never home.
It isn't about how
another man follows a gentleman's
code of honor, drilled into him since
he was a toddler
by his polite and decent mum.
It isn't about how
one was raised, or where
they came from.
It's about how the timid
become entombed in self pity,
too fearful to open rusted eyelids.
It's about how warriors
learn the art of making bricks
from the ashes of war
so they can build a skyscraper.
It's about how our society
transforms free spirits
into slaves.
It's about how we built
a country of ghosts,
applying their iron shackles
immediately after birth
and preparing them neatly
to be returned to the earth
unrealized and unfulfilled;
buried not in an American Eden,
but six feet under
in our canonic hell.
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