Poem re: migra terrorism

[Joe Navarro <jlnhca@yahoo.com>]

I wrote and published this poem 20 years ago.  It is still relevant today.
  --Joe
   
  FEEL THE TERROR

Feel the terror
          Can you feel it?
Can you feel my cold heart?
As I try to strike the fear of god in yours
I am the intangible terror
The ethnocentric inspiration
which seeks to 
          mutilate your image
to trap you inside societal prejudices
which make you completely vulnerable 
               to be
exploited in the worst of conditions
               to be 
without any rights
          to be a tax payer 
but not to be treated as a tax paying citizen
I am the terror
          which dehumanizes you
because if you are not human
               then
no one will expect you to be treated humanely
I am the immigration law 
          that terrorizes 
your family and jeopardizes you livelihood
I am the terror who jails you
because your employer wants cheaper labor
I am the terror that
          will never
allow you to feel safe
I will appear to you 
          armed and dangerous
with every intention to kill
Feel the terror
     can you feel it?

--Joe Navarro
© Copyright 1987



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