beloved: adjective.
very popular with or much used by a specified set of people.
my homeland - the land of the growers, the boaters, and warriors
was beloved by colonizers who seized our thrones over and over.
my homeland
forsaken, forlorn, imperialized and war-torn
was very popular with the french, much used by japan, and it was split by agent orange
my homeland was beloved.
and this land, on which i stand, was too.
this land was exploited for the red, white, and blue.
this land
advantaged for the white man,
mismanaged by the white hands,
glamorized by the white band,
blows horns for the white anthem,
that slanders those who won’t stand,
and sing along enchanted,
to promises abandoned,
to murder made romantic,
this land is beloved.
america
is very popular with supremacists and terrorists
much used by eurocentric developers and eugenicists.
our colors
are never erased
our colors
are just relabeled.
the violence
never dissipates
the violence,
just rearranges
slave patrols they now call "officers"
ol jim crow now "war on drugs"
emmett till and a whistle ended like tamir with a toy gun
hundreds been buried and lynched, hundreds of black girls and sons
america is beloved.
america loves “love”
the way it sounds and looks in movies
but i know words are just flowers
they can sit pretty and never soothe me
a community is not beloved if a community does not have justice
a community cannot know love if it’s been trained to accept a lack of it
we have mistaken silence for peace
we have mistaken success for freedom
we’d rather draw for each other’s blood
than sever the roots of all our symptoms
america
is very popular with those who don’t love liberation
much used by those who only know obliteration.
this land
is not dearly loved
the people are not yet all free
until the gone can get justice
beloved is just a daydream.