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Displacement of Human Agency (Across Insidious Borders)

What are we scared of?

 

Fending off hoards of oppressed human beings

Of acquisition, of possession, of autonomy, of legitimacy

Never been anyone; why empower them now

 

Legitimized crucification

No exoneration for grave transgression

Morality of mankind stabbed, under siege, defiled

Integrity constantly bloodily ***** like the virtue of women during war

Transgression, nonetheless, legitimized not by the law of a god or science

But that of a righteous m/an

 

Bodies without agency traversing into illegitimacy

Becoming illegal human beings

Transgression thrusting them into humiliation

Derailed, deprived, dehumanized

Earning rights to hunger, sickness, homelessness in the eyes of civilized man

 

Growing global economic hubs welcoming

Illegitimate bodies with contempt, violence, violation

Don't belong, lives becoming expendable, adversary to structured society

 

Trafficking, dragging, trading disempowered labor across meaningless borders

Nationalists disregarding with much pride illegitimates' desires for life

Killing them after you've beaten their soul, in negligence, extracting the fruit of their labor

 

Xenophobia killing Japan, dying refusing to open its borders to starving workers

When will a muslim sister in headscarf travel across ALL Europe without discrimination

Be careful America, you're murdering liberty's meaningless oath to the homeless of the world

Preaching the birth of the greatest nation on earth on the backs of immigrants across time

When it refuses to cease the political firing of condemnation against displaced human beings

 

Greatest plunderers of this world, those who set the rules, guarding their loot

Having had displaced black, colored, and brown bodies across time

Abducting black bodies from mother Africa

Contaminating mother America's native bodies with the corruption of whiteness

Causing mother Asia to discourage its pores from allowing the mobility of bodies

 

Greatest plunderers of this world, those who set the rules, guarding their loot

Legitimizing their stolen appropriations for the world to see

By excluding those they extract the wealth from

Displaced bodies achieving transnational identities in pursuance of unreachable wealth

For far too long trickled out of their home nations

To build the wealths of the new homes they're delegitimized from

 

Every country great or small falling in line with border policies

Desperate developing countries much too worried to contain fleeting flocks

Developed and thriving nations too ready to ****** the souls of bodies without agency

 

World's population imploding

Countries' power structures hungering to exploit the oppressed within their borders

Majority of us peasants, poor, without agency, moving across borders

Everyone's in danger of falling in line with the masses

Or the monopolistic governments deliberately creating monstrous line divides

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emanuel-martinez
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Feb 4, 2013
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