Nothing but a dream

Oh beautiful for spacious skies and a dream lingering somewhere behind an invisible veil. A nation under a banner of love and a people of every culture. A faded red, white, and blue dripping with gold and pain. A clash of cultures and an identity crisis worn on her sleeve. A land struggling to live up to her name. Her beauty and grace showed me no kindness...did I ever really know you? You found me thirsty and walked on by, crushed my spirit and my sympathy bleeds thin. But you won't see me fall apart after all I have lost and given. Broken promises reaching the sky but we are one people, one nation, and why was I even born?