My Beloved America

My beloved America, why has your soul turned to stone?

What could have thrived with life, pumping with warm blood, is now calcified.

Our neighbors our enemies, our children reduced to a tax burden, the world itself reduced to an abstraction.

Death!

Death in the spirit. Death where it matters: our humanity. Our shaking, trembling, suffocating humanity.

Us and them. Salvation and sin.

In other words, manufactured division. Rotting within.

Relationships, families, communities, towns, cities, and states divided.

Why have you cast away young Americans? Why must they struggle to pay bills, to work a job that doesn't destroy their soul, to even own their own home?

All written off as a day dream, for what? So those who already have everything can have more?

Why have you decided to destroy stability - secure employment - in the name of the market? Why did you choose to believe that "the business of business is business"?

Humanity, cracked.

More importantly, why do you not listen? Why do you write articles exploring why young Americans are increasingly tuning towards socialism, and somehow transfigure the cause into Red Scare propaganda?

Your society screams at your feet!

How can there be justice if the arbiter is blind, deaf, and willfully ignorant?

All I wish is for you to listen, to speak, to witness.

I cry for us to once again be vibrantly human.

My beloved America, why have you forgotten that we bleed?