u/Sgt_Marbles

Grant them deported, and grant that this, your noise,

Has drowned the very spirit of our laws.

Imagine that you see these "aliens" now,

Their children in their arms, their lives in bins,

Boarding the buses and the blacked-out planes

To be cast out to lands they barely know.

​Imagine you sit as judges of their fate,

Your mercy silenced by your own loud fear,

Wrapped in the armor of your "patriot" pride.

What have you won? I’ll tell you what you’ve taught:

You’ve taught that force and heavy hands prevail;

That order is a mask for cruelty.

By this same logic, not one of you is safe,

For when the wind shifts, as it always does

Other men, driven by their own dark whims,

Would hunt you down with that same "legal" right,

And humans, like the wolves within the wood,

Would feed upon each other.

​The Turning of the Tide

​Suppose the State,

Which stays its hand when you are loud and wrong,

Should find your own transgressions just as great

And exile you. Where would you go? What nation, seeing the nature of your heart,

Would grant you shelter?

​In that moment, you would be the stranger. Would you be pleased to find a land so cold,

That, breaking out in sudden violence,

Would deny you even a patch of earth to stand on?

Would you like it if they bared their teeth at you,

Spurned you like dogs, and acted as if God

Had never breathed a soul into your lungs?

​If they claimed the sun and air were theirs alone,

And you were but a shadow in their path,

What would you think to be so used? This is the "strangers’ case,"

And this, your mountainish inhumanity.