Open Up Your Eyes
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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