Lost In Tapachula Streets

Lost In Tapachula Streets
© Surazeus
2025 07 03

Tina lies on her back in the weed field 
and stares at blankness of the empty sky. 
How horrible our country has become, 
greedy men stealing money from the poor 
so children will starve and people will die, 
all while they pray to Jesus Christ for help. 

Tina walks slowly along barbed-wire fence, 
boots crunching on gravel from skulls of gods. 
Faint comfort it is to me that my heart 
shares this horror at their fascist disgrace 
with millions of people across this land 
who seem powerless to stop it, like me. 

Tina crosses the highway at sunset 
as trucks and cars speed past with gleaming lights. 
Millions of women who generate life 
will no longer be able to get care 
from medical clinics which operate 
on government-funded programs for health. 

Tina buys sprite from the vending machine 
then leans against the power pole and drinks. 
Millions of people who cannot work well 
will go hungry because food benefits 
got cut to provide tax cuts for the rich 
who control the food-production machine. 

Tina walks toward the school library hall 
to study American history books. 
Millions of children eager to learn truth 
based on analysis of observed facts 
will instead be programmed to believe lies 
about the complex history of our land. 

Tina gasps in shock when gang of masked men 
with rifles drag her into the black van. 
People like me who were born in this land 
and possess the birth-right citizenship 
though my parents came here from Mexico 
will get deported to some unknown land. 

Tina shivers cold in the holding cell 
with hundreds of women who stare in shock. 
The great American experiment, 
that insured justice and freedom for all 
who work hard and follow the social rules, 
has disappeared into state tyranny. 

Tina steps off the giant screaming plane 
and wanders lost in Tapachula streets. 
My parents worked hard to start their new life 
so though I lost everything they had gained 
I will start my new life in this strange land 
with souls of my ancestors in my heart.