Analysis of Tomorrow, There’ll Be More of Us
This is America, the greatest country in the world right?
Freedom of speech, 2nd amendment, makes us the best right?
The American dream has brought millions to our shores, right?
Then tell me why those who built America are still forced to claw and fight
See, this is America
We’re the best, a great force to be reckon
A place where a cop can murder a black man by kneeing on his neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds
A place where athletes shine and culture reverberates around the world
And a place where hundreds of unarmed black men have been taken from their little boys and girls
We’re the worlds police
But the police in our country are killing black people in the streets
Don’t get me wrong
I don’t blame you for thinking America is great
In many ways it is
But in many more it ain’t
This is America
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Do people need to be reminded of the very men who wrote that shit?
Slaveowners, white men who created the greatest document ever
But a thought of giving black people their freedom, never
We’ve been hypocritical from the start
Oh and don’t let me forget to mention, that slavery never really ended
It just moved from share cropping to prisons
Are all Americans racist? Of course not
And that’d be ridiculous to say
But the institutions that this country were built on are, in every way
This is America
A place where we tout our freedom and might
But also a place where black parents lie in wake nervous that their kids might not make it back home safe at night
A place where a white kid can shoot up a church and get taken to Burger King
But also where Breonna Taylor had her life taken away in her own home without even the courtesy of a doorbell ring
We’re the greatest democracy ever and it’s truly a blessing to live here
Tell that to the almost 100 black people that have been murdered by cops this year
A place where white people never have to worry about interactions with the police
But where black parents must have daily conversations about how to behave on the streets
You want the definition of white privilege? Just check the statement above
Tell me white moms and dads, how many times have you had to tell your kids that
My guess is none
This is America
A place where we have to the freedom to protest
But also a place where you get “fuck you’s”
When kneeling for the flag cause it’s seen as disrespect
A place where white men can tote guns and storm city halls with no backlash
But a peaceful protest for black lives
Here comes the military and tear gas
But all lives matter right?
Miss me with that
Cause they didn’t when this country was born
They didn’t for 100 years after
They didn’t during Jim Crow
They didn’t during the Tulsa race massacre
They didn’t during segregation
They didn’t during watts riots
They didn’t during the ‘92 LA riots
They didn’t when Trayvon Martin, Eric Gardner, and Philando Castile were murdered
And now you want to say all lives matter, you don’t think that’s selfish just a bit?
Do you wanna start the country over and reverse everything?
Yea, I highly doubt it
From the boycotts to the sit-ins
From the Underground Railroad to the front of the bus
We’re the generation fighting for a new America
And tomorrow, there will be more of us
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110100010100011 1011101011011 001001111011011 111111101001111101 1110100 0010111110 01101110011110111110010 011110100100101 0011101011111101110101 00101 100101010110110001 1111 1111110010011 010111 1010111 110100 110000011100 110111010101011111 111101001010010 10111011011010 110100101 10111011101100101010 1111110110 11010010111 011010011 100101110011101001 110100 01111101001 11001111010110111111111111 0110111110101101101 110111010110010011011001001011 00100100100110010111 11101110111101111 011110101110010101001 111101110010011101101 11001011101101001 111101110111111111 1111 110100 01111101011 1100111111 110101111101 0111111101101111 10101111 110100011 111101 1111 111111011 111110 111011 11100101100 1110010 1110110 11100110 1111101010011010 0111111110111110101 111010101000110 111011 1011011 10101101101 00010101010100 001111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 3,296 |
Words | 618 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 6, 5, 6, 5, 4, 3, 7, 13, 4 |
Lines Amount | 62 |
Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
About this poem
I wrote this poem during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement surrounding the unjust killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. I’m from Louisville, KY so it hit especially close to home when the murder of Breonna hit the news. This poem is about the people of America. The true people. The people who still have to suffer, claw, and fight in this country every day even though they’re the ones that built it. To whoever reads, I hope you enjoy.
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