Rite of PassageA Poem by Maryam MottahedehRite of Passage Immigrants wanting nothing to do with American Politics The dirty politics that privatized and polluted their land The politics of coos on leaders with moral Agent Orange, depleted uranium and torture
Immigrants have yet to open their eyes To the writing on the wall Blasting in the beat of daily lives Begging the release of regrets Of past ignorance tying down our hands, Muting our mouths with fear And numbing us down Begging the breaking away from a victims mentality
Seeing that there is only one place One place Where we can make a difference Where we are now
Let Us end this puppet show of greet Of the fillers Of the lies of the accomplishments of war Let us not make allies with the dictatorship of greed Filled with fearful slavery sweat shops Delivering hypocrisy to Wall-mart In order to keep the fallacy of our broken dollar still propped up
I say lets open our eyes And be not foreigners to reading labels Reading between the FDA lies And voting out the destruction of Monsanto by planting the seeds of truth
Let us do away with our half broken hearts, from the land of our past And fill our hearts with the light of courage So that one day We may proudly pass on our current land © 2012 Maryam Mottahedeh |
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Added on November 29, 2012 Last Updated on November 29, 2012 Author
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