Only Two!

Another death on our southern border--

THIS time an eight-year-old child.

You'd have to be an unsympathetic

And cold-hearted person not to be riled.

 

Little Felipe Gómez Alonzo

Died near the border on Christmas Eve.

The Guatemalan child's death

Leaves another family bereaved.

 

Representative Peter King

In an interview brushed aside

The pain and seriousness and said

ONLY TWO children have died.

 

ONLY TWO? And why? Because

The Trump admin is changing the ways

Asylum seekers apply for refuge

With obstacles and major delays.

 

Closing the ports of entry and making

Families find alternate routes

Through dangerous areas to plead their cases

Has shocked the world and raised many doubts.

 

Trump and his staff are experts at how to

Manipulate his base with lies--

To turn the public against the very

People they dehumanize.

 

The Grand Deceiver claims a wall

Will solve our system of immigration.

Though ludicrous, the wall, he says,

Will be our only hope of salvation.

 

He lashes out through foolish tweets,

Childish tantrums, and angry threats,

Blasting dissenters and passing blame

Without compunction, with no regrets.

 

Asylum seekers who've brought their children…

Did they ever anticipate

That they'd flee death to find it here

In a sad, ironic twist of fate.

 

-by Bob B (12-29-18)