Migration has become a topic of conversation over the past 30 to 40 years, especially since so many immigrants are trying to escape their violent and despotic tyrants and find a better home for them and their families. Someone created this clever poem, which you have to read twice. The second time, please read from the last first to the first, in reverse, and you get a totally new perspective of how we should look at immigrants.
They have no need for our help
So
do not tell me
These
haggard faces could belong to you and me
Should
life have dealt a different hand
We
need to see them for who they really are
Chancers
and scroungers
Layabouts
and loungers
With
bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats
and thieves
They
are not
Welcome
here
We
should make them
Go
back to where they came from
They
cannot
Share
our food
Share
our homes
Share
our countries
Instead
let us
Build
a wall to keep them out
It
is not Okay to say
These
are people just like us
A
place should only belong to those who are born there
Do
not be so stupid to think that
The
world can be looked at another way.
(now
read from bottom to top)
Brian Bilston
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