DEATH OF A COLOSUS

DEATH OF A COL0SUS

The Border patrol took them in
To the prisons dark and dim.
They Stole the child
from a  mothers breast
An America
no longer at its best.

Wide eyed weeping
the children wailing
In sorrow and grief  
the systems failing
Breaking the bonds of family
Ingrained in all
mankind and refugee.

A colossus stands weeping
with her torch ablaze
A momento to
more honest days

She is the spirit
.of a country born.
Speaking of her promises
Her words of bronze 
That can't be torn.

Her statue stands tall
to set all men free.
Freedom for all of us
both you and me

Her words are now scorned
for all to see.
Once the sign
of hope and liberty.

Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

authors  note
from jude.
to the beautiful America
he grew up knowing.

Wake up America
You have replaced
love with greed
Kindness with cruelty 
and your 
friends with enemy's,
Listen to the beautiful lady
with the torch