Banning Refugees

 

The holocaust was not so many years ago
Our sentencing those refugees to death
By turning back those ships back to their fate
A memory of national disgrace

Let’s not forget

Now Trump has issued orders odious
He’s banning refugees from war-torn states
And cities where the living is untenable
This is another national disgrace

For shame, for shame

Is this the greatness to which Trump aspires
Disguising it as keeping terror out?
Of all the Middle Eastern states he banned
No citizen has terrorized us yet

Our greatness dimmed

Trump’s paranoia threatens us in many ways
The self-deluded world in which he lives
Where he decides what’s real and what is not
Has sealed the fate of desperate refugees

And damaged us

1/27/17

Author: Sabba Rabba

Unapologetic Octogenarian Democrat Respond to Poelitic@Poelitics.net

3 thoughts on “Banning Refugees”

  1. I was speaking to some of my students’ mothers just today about Roosevelt’s decision during WW2 not to accept the ship with Jewish refugees and how they had to turn around and go back to Europe where they were murdered. Doesn’t anyone know history? I get sick to my stomach listening to this 4th grade idiot president signing his horrific executive orders.

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