They flew too close to the sun and burned their eyes with overdoses on politics they knew nothing about but tried to keep up with American pride because mommy and daddy hung a flag outside the entry way door and the kids at school had red, white and blue hair ties and t-shirts with a flag was as fake as the people that represented it and the man on TV sounded so angry and powerful that he had to be right about whatever he was always screaming about and because your brother in the army always shouted amen to whatever he said.

So here you are in the country of broken promises, high gas prices, and where greed and control overpower all. Here you are with your family around the TV watching an American man being decapitated for being brave and brain-dead and you can feel the heat of the hate rise up through the room and until your own temperatures boiling because everyone in the room is shouting mean things to the race of people with the blade and you only hate every person who looks like the one they showed on TV because your cousins all call them names and say they ruin the country and every time your in the grocery store and your mom sees one of “those” people with the things on their head, she cringes and makes a rude remark, they would encourage you do the same. You had nothing against them and you knowing nothing made you so easily to manipulate by everything and everyone and you’ll pass that hate on… but your eyes aren’t scarred yet…are they?

Fuck off.