Looking For A New Home Poem by Randy McClave

I was never ashamed of my country,
Not once in my entire life,
Especially when I brought home with me
My foreign uneducated wife,
I told her about the many cultures
And the diversity that's in my land,
Then we walked into America together
While holding onto each others hand.
I told her there was freedom of religion
You can pray to whomever that you want,
And unto no person of color or of difference
Are you ever allowed to mock, or taunt,
The wealthy they are not superior
And they are no better than me or you,
We also care for the needy and the poor
As our Constitution and belief tells us to,
The elderly they are also taken care of
As truly that they should be,
They have fought and suffered for our country
So, there would be a better life for you and me,
Then she read the paper and she watched the news
About my country and all that was related,
She then told me about the President and my Government,
I was the one that was uneducated,
I then bowed my head in disgust and shame
As the spirits of my forefathers around me surrounded,
They shook their heads in sadness and disbelief
This was not how and why our country was founded,
I then took my new bride by her hand
And I said to her before they build a wall or a dome,
Let us leave this country that I once had loved
And let us together find us a new home.

Randy L. McClave