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 </div><p></p>Her palms are sweaty…<br>
His are dry and firm, how can he be so calm?<br>
She is all he ever wanted in a woman…he often quipped.<br>
Why the foreboding feeling creeping down her spine?
<p>His mother is loving and warm,<br>
Who then is this cold and spiteful being with eyes that mirror mine?<br>
She adorns her disapproval like a choice shawl.<br>
Why wont the ground open up and just let me fall?</p>
<p>Look at them, who do they think they are?<br>
With accents heavy and thick, they waltz around sacred ground.<br>
In the blackest of silent nights…<br>
Envy waters little seeds of hate that sprout absent the light.</p>
<p>Walking amongst us, feeding off our land…they flourish<br>
Suckling our women and tilling our earth<br>
I say, death to strangers! They will not share our heritage.<br>
They are not us, they never were and never will.</p>
<p>A child lays bare, more bones than flesh…<br>
Innocent in all but the color of his skin and the one thing he could not choose, family.<br>
Old and young, Rich and poor…they walk past the dying child<br>
Who would reach out to the outsider?</p>
<p>Night and day, sun and rain…time races on.<br>
Where a boy lay helpless till his final breath, a seed will grow.<br>
A tree born from blood and tears to shield the true born from the rage of the bleeding sun.</p>
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