Cages



Doctor, I don’t feel too good today my heart is truly aching
For the people in cages, sleep in tin foil like they’re baking
My own people, taken from their homes for lacking legal papers
separated from their children, accused of being drug traders
Even if you set them free, the things we do will leave them shaking
Because it’s the lives of their family and friends that we’ve been taking
Demonize minorities, publicly accuse them of raping
I thought there was a bit of God in everyone, according to the Quakers
Doctor I don’t feel too good today,
Why are we still making
way to legally imprison foreigners, so long that they’re facing
death sentences, whatever happened to “love thy neighbor”?
surely your morals prohibit you becoming modern day enslavers
Doctor, I don’t feel so good today.

About this poem

This poem is about border cages that immigrants are stuffed into by Americans.

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Written on June 11, 2021

Submitted by adandrade1607 on June 11, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABBAAABCAADBC
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 799
Words 138
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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