Lady Liberty Sheds a Tear
The Lady has a tear in her eye
It douses the flame of her torch
Whose sparks perish on her lifeless gown
Its greenery scarred, now a desolate brown
As the specter of nativism stalks her land
As strangers are branded 'undesirable,' and banned --
Recall what made America so great (again)
Was the raw energy of newcomers way back when
our floodgates opened wide to receive the tide
of ill-clothed, ill-fed dreamers, possessed of pride
to come here, and scratch and claw their way to our table,
to prove their worth, to show that they were able
to compete and make it in this Promised Land --
from which their spiritual descendants are now to be banned
Copyright © Gershon Wolf | Year Posted 2018
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