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