Hope Solo speaks about football like it’s a game no one knows
another American unaware of the rest of the globe
a condescending knowledge noticeably on show
in Europe assuming football’s an unknown
Don’t wish to be rude
but you’re a yank and it’s football
it’s our sport dude
a World Cup winner but not global
You say you only take note of America
it’s why most of the world don’t care for ya
you look like an ignoranus narrow mindedly assured
talking like we don’t know while we laugh ignore
We know more
Parental desperation
is the dreadful flee bidden cause
Children separation
is the inhumane quarantine effect
Trying to cross the sovereign divide
is narrow mindedly viewed, by more than a few,
as a pestilent travel venture
Ill will is the chilling, unhealthy reception
The uncivil solution: Create an insane policy
for poor souls seeking asylum
Man-made designation is an animal control way station,
(also known as) Borderline K-9 Cages
See the perennially sad puppy eyes
laying fetal prone on the morgue cold, concrete floors
Watch the waning wag of the tongues,
their thirst for freedom dying behind iron bar doors
National psychotic behavior is borderline criminal,
keeping children in cages is morally indefensible
Diamondback mutes devolving into what?
Mental worms turning into heartless slugs!
Children developing separation psychosis
is a lonesome doggone shame
K-9 kids were never meant to be raised in cages,
yet no one wants to bear the blame
But many of the kennel keepers
have gotten so inured to the ear-piercing, borderline pain
And the womb-ripped parents
are never told where the aborted-trip children were taken
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