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
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