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Modern-Day Slavery

I'm the voice you don't hear,

I'm the one which you needlessly fear.

I'm the person out on the fields,

I'm the one the law no longer shields.

I'm the one you pay less than minimum wage,

I'm the one that without reason is cause of your rage.

I'm the one you profoundly hate,

I'm the one you love to humiliate.

I'm the migrant worker searching for a better life,

I'm the one whose life you're taking with your political knife.

I'm the exception to human rights,

I'm the dog you dare beat, but condemn his bytes.

I'm the one you seek to exterminate from your land,

Yet you forget this was mine before it was taken by your hand.

I'm the one you call a criminal simply for working,

I'm the one whose family you are persistent in destroying.

I'm only a man pursuing happiness,

I'm the one you insist on leaving homeless.

I'm the one whose path to misery you'd love to pave,

I'm no more than your modern-day slave.

Copyright © Hector Leyva | Year Posted 2011

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Linda-Marie Sweetheart Date: 4/6/2011 12:16:00 AM Hector if u want to enter any contest posted on Soup it is free to enter any poem of your choice as long as it fits the theme and form required for that particular contest... if u want to sponsor a contest then yes u must become a Premium Member .. if u enter my current contest...LOVELAND LIMERICK the first prize is a PM ...read the rules by clicking onto the contest name for details.. good luck and thankxx for your interest and sweet comment on my poetry luv.. Login to Reply

James Foulk Date: 4/5/2011 9:14:00 AM thank you for reading my cellar door and for your comment. your poem is different and you may be right about a modern day slave. but people who cross the border without permission, i have no feelings for those people, jobs are harder enough to fiind with out people crossing the border, if your not that group, then yes it is very unfair to treat you that way. Login to Reply