Freedom Trapped

Location

78702
United States
30° 15' 37.2744" N, 97° 42' 52.254" W

Freedom is what they called it,
Locked away in cages
Exams that told if we were meant to have such a thing
We came to this place running towards a dream
A dream that seems so fate now
Animals can call this their home as we say
Wild, untamed and contagious they thought
But this place was the test if we were truly meant for the U.S
So close to it but so many barriers to face
Trying to stop us from a taste of the good life as they say
No one knew we had to go through hell in order to reach heaven
Where are the Angels at on this island? That foreseen our fate
But all were seen were the demons that condemned us
Where the walls drip of the melodies of our pain that of a new day
Each of us wrote the many poems
That justifies our plea
The evidence is plain as day
Found Guilty they were for leading us to a place that should be called an Freedom Trap

Comments

kshel.bell

The poem was based after a Island that immigrants came to in order to get to the U.S, its name was Angel Island

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