Caged Children
So many immigrant children
are put into pretend
American government foster care
Buildings with cages ...
an Orwellian facade labeled “Detention”
Being in a little person prison,
incarcerated at the age of three
Separated from their parents
indefinitely, maybe ...
Umbilical bond cut forever, most likely
“Zero Tolerance” is the wicked policy title
American human-rights haters
falsely claim
this ungodly law is written in the Holy Bible
How inhumane
to snatch a child from their parent
So beastly demented
to traumatize children permanently
Only getting peer guidance in a cage,
under-developed emotions
being malnourished fed on feral rage
Chained migration ...
putting whole families behind iron bars
Fear immigration ...
fleeing certain death to life in prison
Seeking liberty asylum, and getting the penitentiary penalty
for illegally crossing over into the land of the free
And their innocent children
are forced to be raised in a government cage,
treated with such animal disdain
Caged children ...
look into their eyes and see their pain
Ugly American
wielding frontier justice so inhumane
Caged children ...
young broken hearts fatally familial separating
America flag infraction,
no honor bestowed for this immoral ethic stain
Caged children ...
reach into their souls and feel their pain
Ugly American
go to your border grave buried in shame
Copyright © Freddie Robinson Jr. | Year Posted 2018
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