saddens-frightens me the way
I felt as a child when my mother
would say some awful racist thing
or call some foreigner a name
I would feel the pain even as a child
I knew it wasn’t right yet she
was a kind person and warm-hearted
and now my whole country
confuses and embarrasses me
with the sting of its hatred still there
yet is it not a good country
smiling and generous and fair
until it opens its mouth
and spits out some ugly fear
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