Mark Escobar Poet Narrative

Bracing For Survival

Walking with immigrants at the border
specifically between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez,
more Mexicans are constantly in quest
for jobs and other possibilities at hand.

  It’s the reality that has been going on
  while the government tries its best to help them;
  however, limited resources seem to be the problem
  with hardly enough industries that would employ them.

Known as Casa del Migrante for men and families
that provides services to these people
each day there’s always a new registration
mostly men who’re in search of an answer
jobs – the immediate reason for their coming.

  Their struggles to make ends meet
  their sorrow to experience grief
  their defeat to return home with nothingness
  and their faith being questioned ‘where is God’s grace?’

It’s like a bowl of queries and dissatisfactions
with all those problems and struggles;
life has become hard for them to handle
especially with tragedy or ailment in the family.

  Boldly complex and intertwined with faith
  life at the major crossroads aligned with sufferings;
  a compelling chunk of what it means to survive
  in this world where the forces of good and evil unfold.

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