How We See Things in the World

Disparities and oppression will see you every day

You will see Indigenous villages become tourist playgrounds

Making profit all that matters

Environmental hazards will burn your throat

Seeing sick children will craze your mind

Poverty and lack of support will break your heart.

A nation with potential, great people and rich culture

Strike in poverty and hunger

Work in factories without safety and protection

The history of Mexico has too much to show.

Spanish invasion came one day

Only to take culture that reviled amazing Aztec arts and beliefs.

Indigenous people become slaves in their own lands

Bottom of the system with no support

Lands were taken by invaders

Killing resources for hundreds of years

Now in remains poorest of the poor in poor rural lands half without water

No chance of electric light

Living in one room without small or no income

This has been done to indigenous type.

There are heroes in the striped land Pancho and Zapata

Became a great help, opposing government fighting for the people

New leader arise Carranza, but beware he will not be your friend.

Politician parties started and ruled,

Social injustice helped the rich, hurt the poor.

Zapatistas rise for the indigenous poor

Keeping a fight to restore rights

Indigenous langue’s still prevailed today 56 the number

Diverse you could say

All they want is simple have something to eat

have a good health,

Justice and peace, of course independence.

Child mortality climbs in a rage of sepsis,

No sanitation, no medication

Governments created great amendments

Ratifying rights that not implemented

No regulations to keep the air clean

Emissions and pollutants take over the sky,

Geography and location makes a difference

This pollution could not happen in neighboring soil

Sadness to truth always prevail adverse effects

Cause permanent damages

Hits hard with the poor in health no insurance

Cancer and asthma better than death of the premature.

Drugs hurt tourism, people are scared

What will come next,

Indigenous country becomes a plantation

Keeps beans, rice out people are scared

Danger will come.

Sewage rotting in beautiful canyons,

Logging and mining hurting the region.

Vulnerable country with wonderful people

Without jobs, stripped from hopes

Factories come, factories go

Dreams come, dreams go

Politics rule, people disbelief

Voting has corruption, people were misled,

Struggle in classes, fighting for rights,

Movements for women end in a red light.

Too deep the ideology gap

workers and education cannot match.

Crimes and trafficking darken the light

Disparities emerge

From desperation to survive.

I wrote this poem as part of a school assignment in my Masters of Nursing program when we were looking at disparities and inequalities in different places in the world. I think this poem it is still very accurate today. My goal was to paint an accurate picture that shows the past as well as the present situation. I wrote this poem almost 10 years ago now and still when I read it I have the same strong emotions bubbling up inside me for justice and support as when I was writing the poem. This poem is specific about Mexico but many parts of it is true for all over our world. There is a lot of disparities, crime, suffering and injustice that is still happening everywhere where we look. I truly hope that one day we can all live together peacefully and learn from our history and mistakes we been making. There is so much pain in our world. lets work on bringing joy, understanding hope and happiness.

Thank you for reading,

Gabriella

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