Smothered Under Fiction



What is it that keeps,
Many kept believing.
Immigrants representing,
The ethnic identities of ancestors who came...
To a land centuries ago.
With a doing to contribute,
Their skills and expertise to a country...
Without their participation,
Would not experience the greatness.
Today, the World over, once knew to know,
Greater than all others.

Yet now declared enemies.
By the very ones doing nothing but leech.
Sitting nolonger secretly,
Spreading lies to deceive...
The reality of who actually built a country.
Done to have this fact,
Rewritten to create a fictioned way of life...
Ignoring the truth deluded to believe.

Leaving them,
Effectively smothered under fiction.
Preparing to weaponized and defend,
Their right to destroy...
Themselves and lies told to lose their minds.
Intended and meant to do successfully.
By those they follow and support.
Endorsing an image they've been convinced...
Immigrants of a different ethnic appearance,
Have come to cross a border.
With a doing to have it claimed,
Them to be a threat to a way of life.
Those in positions of leadership,
Feasting to greed...
Between themselves exclusively.
Hoping their activities will stay unrevealed.
As to who are the enemies,
Actually destroying a way of life.
Because of an image entirely fictioned.
Yet refuse to accept this fiction to delude!

'They...
Will not replace us!'

'To who or whom do you refer?
It can not be those,
You rely upon to entertain you.
Or the ones who control,
Every aspect of a way of life...
You have come to enjoy.
How about those who not only,
Own and control the media.
The banking system.
Plant and grow the food you eat.
Make and build the cars you drive.
To then disrespect them.
Call negative names.

Just who are 'They' you depend upon,
You say will not replace you?
To have done it to allow you to keep,
This...'Image?'
Without you to have given them credit!'
An image without other races to mention,
More patriotic than those who pose...
As patriots.
Yet...
Only have contributed,
Division, chaos, bigotry and racism!'

'Well...
At least our concerns are being represented!'
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Written on December 19, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on December 19, 2023

Modified by lpahtillah on December 19, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAXBCDEFBX GXDHDXIH JEXKXDXXXLXIXXDCGICX XF LMNXIKDXOXXJX XNXXXEMXXXO XX
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,093
Words 424
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 11, 8, 20, 2, 13, 11, 2

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