Dream Of America



They come from the South,
and now the North to.
Fleeing their countries
To the Red, White, and Blue.

The dream of America
pushes them on.
Their Socialist countries
did them wrong.

The immigrants come
anyway they can.
By boat, by car,
and walking through all kinds of land.

They cross the Rio Grande River
to come to our shores.
But, the Darien Gap,
can be such a chore.

The cartels keep searching
for immigrants they'll take.
To rape, rob, and murder.
They care not for their fates.

If only they knew
that what they were running from;
A new Socialist America
will be what they are running to.

For it won't be long
if Democrats get their way.
Before no one is safe
and the dream of America
will soon die away.

About this poem

As immigrants flood across the U.S. borders they encounter countless hardships and dangers along the way. America is changing. The Dream of America for a safe new life may soon no longer be true as crime increases and the economy worsens.

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Written on April 13, 1949

Submitted by larrymize on April 26, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA AXBC DXXX EXXX XXEX ADAA CFXAF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 714
Words 156
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

Lawerence E. Mize

Lawerence E. Mize was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1949. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the U.S. Army and served as a medical corpsman with the 101st Airborne Division. A month after his eighteenth birthday he began his one year tour of duty in the Republic of Vietnam. He served with the "Screaming Eagles," of the 101st Airborne Division as a combat medic with A Company of the 2/501st Airmobile Division. On completing his military obligation he returned home to Baltimore and joined the Baltimore City Police Department at the age of twenty-one. Mize went on to serve with the Baltimore City Police Department for the next twenty-nine years retiring as a Sergeant in 1999. Mize then went on to become a District Court Bailiff in 2003. He left that position in 2018 and now likes to spend his time riding his bicycle, writing poems, and traveling with his wife Sandy whom he has been married to for the last forty-eight years. They have two sons, Lawerence Jr. and Nicholas. Mize has self-published six books of poetry since 1997, to include two works about his experiences in Vietnam, "Tortured Soul and Dead Men Calling, (both published by American Literary Press, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland), both of which helped Lawerence deal with the painful memories of Vietnam; a book of poems he dedicated to his wife, Sandy, titled "Thoughts of You," (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, Mustang, Oklahoma); a book of poems about life and dying titled "Reflections," (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, SC); a collection of poems about Mize's life growing up in Baltimore, his experiences in Vietnam, and speak to the riot and looting in Baltimore in 2015 and the aftermath with all its violence in the city since titled, "My Long Journey In Baltimore," (Dorrance Publishing Co. Pittsburgh, PA); and his latest work in 2021 titled "Baltimore...A City Besieged," in which Mize takes us on a poetic tour of Baltimore and provides us with a chilling account of what life is like for Baltimore's residents with over 300 homicides in the last six years. more…

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