Are You American?

Are you American?

How would you feel about going to war if you were not to be the one going?
How would you feel about going to war when no war has been waged?
How would you feel when your mother is taken by the government
and she's crying, pleading, trying to take steps backwards into the house - to you
and you're too young and don't know
or you're old enough and know
and she uses her nails painted red to fight her way through
but can't
all she ever does is fail to come back

And she leaves screaming