Where the Hudson meets the sea
stands the lady of liberty
I am there on the promenade with my family
thinking about what it means to be free
Is it a state of mind?
An idea of an ancestor who came a shore
on Ellis island to escape some war?
I wonder how they felt to be
in a steamship from a distance land
arriving with a million souls
to build a nation full of holes
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