Immigrant

 IMMIGRANT

your s.o.s. was sent out

over the wireless

long ago

funny how

the ansar heeded

the message

of the muhajirun

and you're still standing

with visa forms

and passport in hand

guess you're

no different than

the russian thistle

on the farmlands

of your native colorado

your diplomas

and expertise

might as well be static

on the airwaves

the immigration policy

in this foreign land

changes as often as

a mutated microbe

and all your

knowledge can't cure

your dilemma

you're still

tumbleweed

on the plains

uprooted and windswept

never mind

your petition

for permanent residency

was intercepted

and jammed

Allah knows no one

gives a damm

your wife and daughter

can still live on

in their tropical homeland

better you

thrash about

in the barbed wire

than drift around

the borderlands

your mayday

will be heard

in the end

poetic justice

will prevail

as surely as

the israk miraj

your progeny

will flourish

in the spring

amid this new land

and they will emerge

the hybrid 

generation

among the weeds

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