Stay

Mon, 02/13/2017 - 22:45 -- eshak

You came here all alone

To make this place your home

Left everything you know

 

Had to start over again

Build bridges and make friends

Needed to succeed in the end

 

Now it's been twenty years

Made a family and have a job

It's like you've grown up here

 

This country has become your home

The place where you want to grow old

You can't imagine living anywhere else

 

But on that day in January

The country gets split both ways

Is this still a democracy?

 

The president makes the rules

Wants to get rid of immigrants

How could he be so cruel?

 

Now you're scared and afraid

Don't know if you can stay 

Will you have to leave your family?

 

It's not fair to you

None of us have a clue 

What it feels like to be treated that way

 

But all we can do is hope and pray 

That common sense will kick in and save the day

Oh, I hope that you can stay

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This poem is about: 
My country
Our world

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