advantage taken of human need
as desperation laws do break
while US agri-business moves with greed
into the after-NAFTA wake
family fields of decimation
failing grains, lives at stake.

shy-of-heaven cross 8-foot-high
ribbons of discontent in wind blowing
not tall enough to carry all souls’ loss
walled-in people, walled-out hope growing
in the midst of such devastation
wondering just what seeds we’re sowing.

work-permits-limited limits survival, dreams
coyotes traffic in the middle
to feed on human flesh do scheme
free versus fair left to riddle
leaves one with no revelation
trading life for profit its current quibble.

permeable boundary where breath’s air
cut off again leads to plight
full value, full cost, full pockets, despair
from flames of injustice arises Phoenix flight
bold with rainbow-colored feathers, wings elation
as Justice GA 2012 prepares to fight.

where Arizona SB 1070’s fingers of injustice tread
hands join to make love a more powerful deed
diverse societies come with actions to spread
releasing the grip of fear and hate, the need
witness on racial and economic justice, immigration
for reason and love to rule, god speed.

empty hate’s coffers to redeem from sin
let the healing power of knowledge and love begin.