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Looking For America

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by wunderpets20

by wunderpets20

tw: america

~inspired by Looking For America by Lana Del Rey~

written on: november 6, 2024

perhaps it was stupid to dream

i always called myself a pessimist and yet i still wanted

i wanted to do something for this country

i wanted to serve in the only way i could, the only way i knew how

i can't serve if they reject my application without looking at it

i can't want when they do not allow me to

i can't do anything when they do not want me now, when they do not want me ever

i know democracy did not fail

i know because it cannot fail when it never existed

i am ashamed of those who believed in it, ashamed that i will never be one of you

i will tell myself that i can be jaded for a moment

i will tell myself that after that moment i will have to start surviving

i will tell myself that i can want because it is a free country, but that's just what it used to be

perhaps it was stupid to dream