I grew up loving others

That were mistreated,

So I'm the reason,

If they grow up loving their leader,

But amongst one another,

It's a different meeting.

I believed God saw it through,

In the driest season,

So we uproot flags,

And hang them over our weapons

To call it pleasing.

But I grew up taking a pledge

In the dust and in a moment of silence,

Like a wining dog

On his hind legs making notes in his breath,

To tell his mother that he's bleeding.

In school, I found a reading,

Of triumphs in massacres, deadly arguments, an army of bullets that fled,

In the coldest war,

I laid my beliefs in,

An enemy who gave his troops manner and water

When soldiers sunk their knees in

Like a government painting his face on a president's speech

But forgetting to target and highlight what executive order has to do with Judicial blemishes,

Tally-ho to every Democrat, dreamer, and Republican

I dream of skipping away to a tighter people who write what steps a people can outline in their nation,

So tell me which island?

Is it Jamaica where the land is tough, sand is buff, and the community grows with the little children?

Or any island of such with limited stuff, materials out the window and a people learn their country's history with laws distributed from a man's vein and not cuffs.

The cufflinks and collar on any president,

I want to honor like growing pains on an elephant's tusk.