This Sort of Thing...

 

Trip of a Lifetime

11/08/2023

 

A hot cloudless day

They lie in the sun

On the trip of a lifetime

Lucky for some

 

Facedown by the road

With the dirt and the flies

Unable to move

Wrists bound, cable ties

 

A boot on a neck

Has blood on the laces

Battered and bruised

The most delicate places

 

Welcome to Europe

Black uniform smirked

Your plan for survival

Well it just hasn’t worked

 

Crossed over the border

From Turkey or Greece

Without any euro

To bribe the police

 

Dragged from the van

Thrown to the floor

Fingers are broken

As baton meets jaw

 

From the south and the east

Fleeing hunger and war

With hope of compassion

They knock on our door

 

No room at the inn

You’ve heard it before

Response to the homeless

Two millennia and more

 

If you come from Ukraine

We’ll find you a space

But Arabs and Afghans

Not quite the right race

 

I too am a migrant

They soon let me in

See I have my visa

In the form of white skin

 

My blood’s just like theirs

Not blue and regal

In this merciless world

Being human’s illegal

 

The sickest of minds

Protecting their borders

We can’t let you cross

We have new world orders

 

Trip of a Lifetime

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