By Jim Buie with a little help from AI
What Have You Done to My Beloved USA?
In the land of the free, the brave, the true,
A question lingers in the red, white, and blue:
“What have you done to my beloved USA?”
A land where the order of law once held sway.
Where has the belief in justice gone,
In a nation where right was distinguished from wrong?
No man above the law, we proudly would say,
Now echoes like whispers from an era gray.
Justice, once a beacon so bright and so fair,
Seems clouded, obscured by a thickening air.
The guardians of peace, in blue sworn to protect,
Now face distrust and a loss of respect.
Citizens of stars and stripes, once united and strong,
Now question the chords to which they belong.
Journalism, the lens through which truth should appear,
Blurs lines between facts and the bias we fear.
Why are eyes turned away from the danger we face,
To the democracy we cherish, the foundation, the base?
In the pursuit of freedom, in the pursuit of dreams,
Are we unraveling, it sadly seems?
Yet, hope is the anthem that forever will play,
For the beloved USA, there’s still a way.
To remember, to honor, the values we hold dear,
And to the republic, for which we stand clear.
Where this will lead us, the future’s unwritten,
But by the pen of the people, our path will be smitten.
With each stroke of courage, each act of the just,
We’ll reclaim the belief, the faith, and the trust
