What Is America?

What Is America?

A Poem by Reyna Malone

America isn't purple mountains and prairies
It isn't 1930's New York City
It's not marble columns and domes
It isn't crazy politicians and gridlock in Washington

And it certainly isn't Red, White, and Blue. Australia, Russia, Slovakia, and Great Britain are all red, white, and blue.
Heck, they're the exact same shades of red, white, and blue

America is freedom
America is tolerance
America is acceptance

America is about taking your traditions
And mixing them with the traditions of people around you

America is about saying what we want to
And not what someone else wants us to

America is about letting the people take the reigns.
"We the people"
It's the first line of the constitution

It's why we have memorials, marble columns, and congress

It's why people died fighting for it

Don't forget it

America is an ideal
Not a place
Not a person
Not an object

America is as beautiful
As we choose to make it
what do you want it to look like?

© 2016 Reyna Malone


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Wonderful! Here's to America!
Go here: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/77101614-america-is-independent-

America isn’t just anything. America’s all of that put together. Everything you mentioned. It isn’t just red, white and blue. But it is red, white and blue. And all those other things. America is everything. America is truly wonderful. And God bless all who love and support America!

Posted 7 Years Ago



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Reyna Malone
Reyna Malone

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