Go Look For America
© Surazeus
2025 06 10

Each time I go look for America
across deserts, mountains, prairies, and woods,
I find ghosts of my ancestors by the road
where they lived and died on their journey west
four hundred years from sea to shining sea,
each soul awake in my dream-programmed genes.

Each time I go look for America
in homes, schools, stores, churches, and restaurants,
I find people from all over the world
living together in communities
based on the sacrosanct principle
that every soul has equal opportunities.

Each time I go look for America
in neighborhoods of apartments or homes,
I meet hardworking honest citizens
who perform duties of their chosen role
with heart-felt passion of loyal respect
for land of freedom and justice for all.

Each time I go look for America
in sprawling network of highways and roads,
I meet cooks, teachers, mechanics, and clerks
who build foundation of democracy
through creative actions of crafting hands
to give with bounty more than they receive.

Each time I go look for America
in spacious mansions and small crowded shacks,
I hear hopes and dreams of the rich and poor
clash in conflicts of ideology
between exploitation of earnest hope
and opportunity to create good.

Each time I go look for America
in coffee shops and giant concert halls,
I hear folk songs of happiness and fear
expressing desire for true love with faith
in love ballads or heart-sick elegies
lamenting briefness of our hopeful lives.

Each time I go look for America
in streets of deception and courts of law,
I watch weird battle to control the truth
between conservatives who grasp for power
and progressives who empower everyone
to generate new life before we die.

Each time I go look for America
in grand illusion of our empire state,
I watch the people fight for liberty,
opposed to agents of cruel oligarchs,
to protect lives of fellow citizens
when Justice defends our right to live free.

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Orpheus joins honest citizens who protest masked thugs ordered by the tyrant to arrest hard-working people without due process.

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