Words and promises
Ingrained into our hearts
Constitutional freedoms
Expressed by founding fathers
To ensure equality
Where
Here
How
When our supreme leaders
Seem to take us
Back in time
Past hard pressed
Victories
Take an oath for life
Then
Lie
Bio: Carlos Loera graduated from the University of Wisconsin at Madison with an MFA in Art. He teaches at San Antonio College. He is an artist, writes poetry and produces the poetry group Voces Cósmicas.