Borderlines - Stockades

Bound to machines

Bow to fluorescence

Rotating through cycles

Sweating the essence of effort

Lost empathy in narcissistic misery

Held heavy aloft

Vanity’s purchase

For digital mirrors

Lacking a purpose

A broader perspective, beyond reflections

Wind wails past the windows

You’re huffing stale air

Complain and perspire

Climb stairs to nowhere

Instruments measure success, a number deceptive

Like close-by horizons forever depicted in distance

Struggle and strive but remain

Retain a stagnant disposition

Remain in a static position

Escaping, fleeing in fear

Cross invisible lines

A reason just that is clear

To protect lives

Flicker flame

Dripping cloth

Shatter impact

Spill full of

Combusting liquids

Makes more sense, a bigger difference than any vote

It’s not democracy but a crushing yoke

Corporate oligarchy

Blood and oil their alchemy

To spill, to soak

It’s the national xenophobia superiority delusion

In the bigot lies of the media

In a vote grabbing decision

It’s the ping -pong politics that punish humans seeking refuge

Exercising a right to asylum, refused

In mental illness factories

Indefinite incarceration

Suicidal tendencies

Death sentence deportation

A homeland without barriers

Country not owed by us

Plants, water, rock, and dirt

Did the first people here tell you that it was yours?

Did your god whisper in your ear your birth right privilege assured?