Complacent States of America

I’ve been complacent all my life.

I let them deport the immigrants ,

Simply seeking refuge and the American dream.

Who needs due process?

I let them go after the trans community ,

People dying to be comfortable in their own skin.

I was complacent and compliant.

I let them rewrite DEI.

“Fuck equality, work for it like I did.”

White privilege blatant.

I helped them strip women’s rights.

An unborn child deemed more important.

Dead or alive, women give birth.

I went after the poor,

Treating food and comfort as contraband.

Minimum wage was never livable.

I cheered as they deleted the “alphabet people.”

“It’s unnatural, immoral, wrong!”

They don’t deserve the same air I breathe.

Then they came for me.

I was the only one left to fight for me.

Here I’m interned in my own country ,

My Segregated States of America.