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Open Up Your Eyes By Franklin Price 9/23/2015 Open up your eyes and see the World in its stupidity. On TV watching ones afar; misplaced ones to doors ajar Thousands fleeing, disrupting all, from native lands about to fall To some new place to find respect without much thought how to connect. Where will they go? Who will accept? Their treatment what? At most inept. What will they do? Where will they work? Once they have fled some tyrant jerk. Should they have stayed and fought the fight? Should they return against the might? Should the able help? What's right is right. Should they fall into abysmal night? Refugees from everywhere fleeing places without care. From rulers all, without a clue; next thing you know they could be you The United States, I must confess, In many ways have caused this mess Have pushed our ways most everywhere Interfered much more than should have dared We citizens stood by to view As politicians stirred the stew Pushed by the rich; the selfish few. That's no surprise. It's nothing new Now we are here. What can we do? Now that we, through choice, have stirred the stew. Must take care, the choices made Through strength must act; not be afraid. With allies act to stop the flow Give the misplaced their homes to go Make homelands safe for them to be Or the refugees are you and me.
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