American Dream
Summary
It's about growing up as a Native American in a predominately Caucasian community and being told I don't belong in the country I was born in for such petty things like my skin tone. I grew up around all white people and developed their culture while having none of my own.
I’m trying my best to be something I wasn’t born to be
I’ll fall asleep and try to believe
Go ahead and keep your American Dream
You can take what you want from me
Get me to fake an identity
Go ahead and keep your American Dream
I can’t speak, I can’t think
About anything other than the words you taught me
I’m a machine
A manufactured beast
With no self-sufficiency
Feathers in my hair blow away as quick as everything I could be
Slowly mold me into an American Dream
I can’t breathe
I’m down on my knees
While you walk all over my ancestry
I’ve been writing American Dreams
And sending them off to sea
So the next generation can possibly learn from me
This is not what we were meant to be
While everything burns away with bright orange gleams
Hopefully we can restart everything
Be the new American Dream
Burke High School Poetry Study
Poetry Study is an elective class in which students read and write poetry.