In Total Agreement

Their homes are destroyed.
Their resources are taken away!
Their quality of life is ruined...
And yet they managed to survive,
Under dire circumstances!
They are denied any opportunity.
However...
This doesn't stop the bus tours,
Loaded with reporters and sightseers
Who question WHY these people can not get on their feet,
Educate themselves and stop the complaining!
Afterall...
Those in observance are in total agreement,
That when 'their' ancestors arrived from the 'old' country,
They had nothing but the shirts on their backs!
And they all continued on their fact finding...
With something in common as they returned
To gated communities,
Full of themselves...
And proud of their achievements!

poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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