Great Poetry

[Brian37]

"Infestation", By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB and brianrrs37 on twitter).

You are 
The infestation
The malignant manifestation
Pandering to the worst in our species

Verbal feces history has seen
Separating children
On plantations
And concentration camps

Abhorrent 
Not a "deterrent"
To condemn those
Fleeing on top of which
You take it out on children


They were called rats
Both Jews and blacks
Ripped from their kids
Put in prison camps

And the hollow cries
Coming from the right
His party leadership
Now decries?

That this is wrong
But for years while he ran
Daily demonization
Of everyone

Now act surprised
But this will arise
Dangerous rhetoric
Makes humanity uncivilized


Reagan's "beacon"
JFK's "ask what you can do"
Lady Liberty's 
"Tired huddled masses"

We were built on migration
We've always been a nation
Pluralistic , diverse
And welcoming

But some insist
To win at at all costs
Divided the races and classes
With "us vs them"

We cannot afford
To allow one man
One politician
Destroy our land

He is the only
Real infestation
The attitude that
Our fellow human

Our fellow human
Are somehow different
Like rats on a plantation
Or subject to concentration

We must have the determination
To defeat such hate
To defend compassion and empathy
Before it is too late