Rite of Passage

Rite of Passage

A Poem by Maryam Mottahedeh

Rite 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
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Maryam Mottahedeh
Maryam Mottahedeh

Los Angeles, CA



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