XENOPHOBIC PRONOUNS

 XENOPHOBIC PRONOUNS

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                                                                                 BY: Keith H. Seymour

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                                              I, me are from here.

                                                You, he, and she

                                              Are from over...there.

                             Pronouns...replacing nouns… in a non-pro way.

                                              All those other people

                            Different from you, me, us...are unwelcome to stay.

                             Irish immigrants were once similarly treated.

                                              “Irish Need Not Apply!”

                       At such discriminatory notices, the American Government

                                                   Turned a blind eye.

                                Even so-called political leaders proclaimed

                                        “We want no drunken Irish Micks!”

                                     Even Californians socially persecuted

                                                  People the termed

                                              Dustbowl “Okie Hicks.”

                                  Once, we tore a country’s physical wall down.

                                         Now, physical and psychological walls

                                                          Globally-go up.

                    Once, we cheered “Solidarity,” and our African Sisters and brothers

                                         When “Apartheid” was forced to its end.

                                   Yet, many of the same people of then cheered

                                 Now, seem to endorse a more Xenophobic trend.

                                              I,and you, We and them.

                                       Together, they compliment differences,

                                                      and create us.

                                          Yet, used as “opposing antonyms.”

                                                Create a xenophobic fuss.