Unbearable Injustice

 

Unbearable injustice

Wakes one at 5:16,

There will be no more sleep.

He tells them, “Focus on what you can control,

Accept what is beyond your control,”

But he can’t self counsel, 

He can only replay the video: 

Terrorized children beg ICE not to take their father,

Their pleaded cries, 'No, no, no…please don’t take my Daddy.’

Imposed agony ruins the petals,

Severs the spine, once in a lifetime cells

Permanently damaged. 

He can only think of his own father’s disappearance,

He’s in his mother’s arms,

Scared silent, powerless in the cradle of abuse. 

Born to monsters,

Why would humans create this horrible life,

Put on costumes, make up a narrative,

Torture powerless people,

Why would God watch,

Shouldn’t children be gardened,

Where is the life that should be,

Why did they create hell

Throw babies into it?

He can’t be here anymore,

But it’s the only place he can be. 

I’m in my mother’s arms crying

as I've always been.

No one hears me,

for I am merely an extension of her,

unseen