Bit of a rant, but it felt sort of appropriate.
You’re in the Wrong Place
The problem is, you came, you stayed too long,
You’re somewhere that you don’t belong
And you don’t look like me.
Your papers have discrepancies,
You can’t have two identities,
And you speak funny.
We’ve voted now, to put this right
We’ll soon move your problem out of sight
We’re changing to become watertight,
Why are you threatening me?
You seek asylum, from some ‘harm’,
We say that’s clearly false alarm.
In other words, you’re a liar.
You, you’re not getting it, what we do,
We’re looking for those who add value,
You’re not good enough to count.
The law has given us the powers
To say the stuff that’s here is ours
We don’t know about you.
We’ve decided to forget our past,
Look after those like us at last, as
the riches that have been amassed
Won’t stretch to you.
You think we’re stewards of where we’re born,
We know it’s ours forever more,
Get away from me.
Problems are complex today,
It’s simpler stated in this way:
‘you’re different’.
Appeal, go on, to our sense of fairness, and
We’ll blame you for being careless
And for believing you’re the same.
Empathy is weakness now.
Children we must disavow
Become adults we must disallow
From being like us.
The places that were made for you
Are Jordan, Calais, Yarl’s Wood too -
Not here.
Families split through desperate orders
And stateless births at mud-soaked borders
Will all save our space.
The people spoke, they want to free
Our culture before our humanity.
Your rights have been replaced.
We’ll build our nation nice and strong,
Keep out the the likes of you, the throng,
The swarm to who, for much too long,
We showed compassion and grace.
You’re under the illusion,
That nationalism has any other political conclusion than,
‘You’re in the wrong place’.
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