| Saturday, April 21, 2007 |
| My Last Reflection |
You say you can't understand how they could come here illegally.
How they could disobey the law.
How they could not wait in line.
You see them as nothing but terrorists and theives.
Lazy figures who are less than human.
Who come to change us -- instead of being changed.
"May God grant me the serenity,
To accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference."
You refuse to look into the faces of those they come for.
The ones they leave behind.
The ones they send ahead.
What would you do -- if you couldn't help your child?
If you had nowhere else to go.
If you couldn't afford to raise them?
Not all of the faces of immigrants,
Are the faces of terrorists.
Some are the faces from your door you'd never turn away.
Many of them travel farther than you ever could --
Farther than you ever would.
By foot no less. Through hellish heat.
Only to be caught.
Deported.
Left to taste defeat.
There's no easy solution -- that much is true.
But to build a wall of cold hearts,
Makes me pity them, not you.
Who wouldn't risk it all --
To leave this all behind?
At the end of the day, couldn't you ask yourself:
Wouldn't you risk it all too?
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All photos taken by Kari Shaffer, except for the photo of the ground and the photo of the man sitting on the ground after being caught by the border patrol. Those photos were taken by Lauren Hillery. |
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