Civilized incivility

Ask anyone on the streets of NY, "What's your ethnicity?" You'd get a multitude of answers. Whether Irish, Puerto Rican, Trinidadian, German, African, Mexican, all-American. What has now changed?

       Age before beauty

Unless ugly.

I before E,

Mandated by clue.

Reality is molded by Society

Yet what are we?

  Save me!

This lion in distress

A poor, caged kitty with a paw

Torn through injury,

By thorn.

 How the kitten roars

In pain

A cat forever,

Lion never again

Disturbed as was Sane         

It rages on!

This battle of the ages

On lawns near you,

To Buddhists who afore most others

Face God’s dawn for the millionth time.

Every day seeking an answer still, yet unfounded here.

It makes NASA’s spent billions looking for unknown civilizations

Seem fair!

        Joy overspent or unwelcome

Will afford one the title of illegal

What then is a sentence which a judge can hand down as possibly true?

Since every American immigrant’s essentially an alien,

        How can Law,

Apply to beings that have never been on Earth before?

Reviews

[Jared Grace]

I like the last touch about immigration. What inspired you to write this poem?

[Royal Martinez]

The political turmoil surrounding the issue today