A Place Where Everyone Can Belong

What makes my home beautiful? Is it the trees or the flowers? Perhaps the riches and wealth The innovations that revolutionize Or the muscles it can flex What about the ideas it has? The intelligence or creativity? The works of art, the masterpieces

If you look closer, you'll see It's none of those things It's the people

People plant the trees and flowers They collect wealth and riches They innovate and change the world Protecting and serving here and abroad With ideas no one else had considered Painting, sculpting, and crafting Creating and shaping a new world

The beauty of this land Comes from its diversity Without change, it becomes stale Gray, dull, lifeless Diversity and change drive us

So please Come one and all Give us your poor, tired, scared people The dreamers, the thinkers, the fighters All people who yearn for new opportunities You can all find a place here And together We will make this land beautiful We will wake this land one where everyone can belong

#Poetry #AcceptingOthers

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