America is a dream.<br />The poet says it was promises.<br />The people say it <i>is</i> promises—that will come true.<br />The people do not always say things out loud,<br />Nor write them down on paper.<br />The people often hold<br />Great thoughts in their deepest hearts<br />And sometimes only blunderingly express them,<br />Haltingly and stumbling say them,<br />And faultily put them into practice.<br />The people do not always understand each other.<br />But there is, somewhere there,<br />Always the <i>trying</i> to understand,<br />And the <i>trying</i> to say,<br />"You are a man. Together we are building our land.