Patina Lady
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Patina lady, with torch in hand,
bastion of freedom in a promised land.
Now perish the principles upholding your base
by the internment of children in a zoo like place.
Patina lady when you were young
homeless from many shores did come
and gathered grateful at your hem,
American dream in view for them.
Patina lady, green like money
that flows through bytes as Wall Street honey.
No longer are welcomed the “tired and the poor.”
Put up a wall and shut the back door.
Patina lady, green like sickness
Let's clean you up to bronze with quickness.
There’s an urgent need to renovate
a nation that doesn't tolerate.
6/27/18
Protest poem : A poem with a message N/A Judged 4/6/19
NA re-run Poetry Contest Sponsored by: John Hamilton
Copyright © Janis Thompson | Year Posted 2018
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