First Curse, The Trump Regime:
petitioning the Creator

Because toddlers sat in cages

on concrete floors

under aluminum foil blankets

staring into gray walls

wailing until their lungs collapsed

as guards surveyed them

from watchtowers high above

 

Because the babies lay in cribs

without being touched

or spoken to

or looked at

 

Because the children were taken

from their mothers and fathers

never to be fed by them again

 

Because the criminals

are government officials

border patrol agents

immigration and customs

enforcement officers

 

Because this entire country is

encaged

isolated

and gray

 

Because they torture us

and intern us

shoot us in the streets

and loath us for who we are

The first people

The shamans

The healers

The teachers

The warriors

The keepers of this world.