Once Proud Americans Poem by Randy McClave

We beat the British and the Germans and the Japanese
And other great powers we brought them down to their knees,
Now many Americans want a wall, or need to carry a gun
They forgot the pride and the honor that their fathers had won.
They are so afraid of people of different colors and/ or belief
When they see a stranger, they see a murderer or rapist or a thief,
Now many of them have become more like a frightened fawn
Once proud, patriotic Americans, are now afraid of everyone.

Randy L. McClave