A beautiful poem by Sherman Alexie, Hymn reflects on the hatred currently plaguing the United States. Sherman Alexie is a Novelist, short story writer, poet, and filmmaker. He comes from an Indigenous American with ancestry from several tribes. If you read his work, you could see how his writings connect to this. This poem talks about how hate is wounding our country. Throughout this poem, youʻll see themes of love, hatred, acts of hated, religion, etc. In Hymn, Alexie illustrates that If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem. Today there is so much hate and acts of war, and there are very few people in the world trying to solve this problem. Instead of solving this problem, they’re just going with it. Alexie writes
