# Unraveling This Historical Perpetual Work in Progress

Author: Apolarbear17
Tags: America Atrocities, Conflicted Feelings, For 4th of July, Heavy Subjects, Holiday, Poetry

Continuing with the backlog here's a poem that was made for the 4th of July over a year ago. A bit jarring I know considering my previous post and how late we are in the year but I want to keep things in order so here it is. Hope it's a good read. Originally posted July 2021.

Unraveling this Historical Perpetual Work in Progress

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By: A.X. Bueno&nbsp;

  

The history of America is a complicated one and is fraught with so much pain&nbsp;

It's unreal just how much of our history has been revealed to be full of strife and is bloodstained&nbsp;

Of course there are plenty who have always known this to be true&nbsp;

Those who had their homelands forcefully stolen from them, the descendants of those enslaved&nbsp;

People who came from far away hoping for better only to be used as scapegoats and cheap labor after the hell of travel they had to go through&nbsp;

I could go more into the specifics because despite what our anthem claims we cower a lot from our history for a land of the brave&nbsp;

There's so much horrible historical baggage to unload that only grew and grew&nbsp;

It continues to grow as atrocities just continue building and people continue to suffer and die&nbsp;

There's a lot to tarnish any feelings of pride for this country from which we can no longer hide&nbsp;

There's also a lot of incredible people who do try to make the country better as best they can&nbsp;

Plenty of people don't have a lot but still try to give aid and help their fellow man

There's also plenty of good happening now too if you look beyond the sensationalism and fear&nbsp;

It's just that there's too many people who profit off misery&nbsp;

So they try to make it look like nothing good is capable of happening here&nbsp;

Of course there is also plenty of terrible things that the media and our schools pretend to miss&nbsp;

But there's also hope for a better country and good people here who shouldn't just be dismissed&nbsp;

I get it's hard to separate the good from the bad when things feel like they're only getting worse&nbsp;

And then there's the blind "patriotism" which makes any support for the country feel tainted and cursed&nbsp;

So it's understandable really if you don't feel like celebrating considering all the baggage that comes with merely being American today&nbsp;

Still I hope you regardless had a nice 4th of July that day&nbsp;   
  

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