People – oh no,
Do I dare say,
“People!”
Excuse me, everything is rather pressing.
Where’s the space? Let alone the time…
A glimmer of solidarity
Is swept with the addition of a
Branded string of letters.
The words – Those words;
Alien.
Victims of a heart and soul,
Perpetrated by an absence
Then, by a presence; pointed fingers don’t lie.
Illegal.
People – oh no,
Did I dare say
“Our Own!”
9 January, 2019. Alyssa Jennewine. Lehigh University.