Xenophobia

I hate people with different skin.

Send them back with all their kin.

They took my wife and the kids.

And my cutlery and saucepan lids.


They came on boats across the sea.

They took my job, they work for free.

They have no education, no degree.

Wait a minute they’re just like me.


Before you hate on an immigrant.

And become evil and belligerent.

Stop and wait, and think about.

Who wins on your hostile doubt.


I’ll tell you it is not you or them.

Not Dave, not Charles and not Gwen.

It is the people sitting beneath Big Ben.

It is they we ought to condemn.



--Elliot Keen, 12/11/24

Theme : Social Criticism, Comedic