Refugees
I WROTE THIS A WHILE BACK AND IT SEEMS TO BE AS RELEVANT AS EVER NOW AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE SO UNTIL WE COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT BEING A HUMAN BEING IS NOT ABOUT BORDERS..ESPECIALLY AS ANOTHER THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION APPROACHES.
(November 28, 2015)
We are slaves to our circumstances,
Thus, we aspire to freedom!
Through the promise of others
Great before us!
In their writings, we seek our freedom,
And inclusion to a society
That shuns our people and our experience,
That laughs at our ignorance,
Supposed and feigned,
Assumed and unproven!
We are in the game of life and death,
Played by their rules..
Unfair and ever in flux.
In these walls of life's labrynth,
With pitfalls and cracks exploited.
We are pawns,
And our masters are many,
Supposed and feigned,
Assumed and unproven.
Our history is not short,
Our collective memories longer.
We are violent and peaceful,
Faithful and conniving,
Loving and hateful,
Uneducated and genius,
Worldly and unsure..
The best of the worst, the worst of the best,
The least and the greatest!
Our chains are many..
Mental and physical,
Of society and of our own making.
We struggle as our fathers before us,
Chase a better future for our children.
And in the end.......
I am you!
You are me!
And together we can be..
An Unbreakable Chain!
PEACE
About the Creator
Victor Mendez
Born in 1958.There's a lot of road beneath these feet.Worn out pairs upon pairs of shoes.Been a ranch kid,a city kid,a Marine,a dad, a grandfather now,an avid reader and just recently began writing poetry in 2015 just to vent.
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