Don't Hate the player...

Don't hate The Player
By Art Sun   
Rated "PG" by the Author.
Last edited: Friday, December 24, 2010
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008

Immigration is an issue that just doesn't seem to go away. I am in no way sympathetic to either side, all I wish for is the solution. Let us see if the candidates are able to do more than just reach for votes.

  

Don’t hate the player

 

 

With issues surrounding our country, there is one issue that stirs more than questions and answers, it stirs crime and hate to the point of disillusion and leaves us without the solution to this very large and important problem. Immigration is a topic that lingers and unfortunately has been with us for a long time. I find it unusual that when votes are needed candidates seek the Hispanic vote and yet no one has fixed this problem other than the installation of a fence along our borders. I wrote this as a voice from the immigrant and though it displays some harshness it is in no way my acceptance of illegal crossings or illegal status of anyone who lives within our country under those circumstances. There is more than division when hate begins to flow from an issue that government and politicians have known of and yet have not been able to resolve. Yes both sides are at fault from politics to the illegals but I have stood within the workforce and seen the agents who drag off workers and this was thirty years ago. As a United States citizen and professional within the economy I too wish for this solution to a problem that evades us.

 

 

 

 by Art Sun

 

 

 

Don’t hate the player

They won’t

Fix the fence

And

They can’t fix the laws

 

Don’t hate the player

 

He didn’t make the rules

Look to the top

 Who's calling the shots?

Democants

Republicants

 

It isn’t something new

Just like a game show

You don’t have a clue

Jeopardy, password, running man

Their crossing that river

Along our borderland

 

Leaving their

 Family

Country

And

The life of the poor

 

Everyday

Homeland Security

Finding more and more

 

FBI

 DEA

CIA

And the

Border Patrol

Placing a badge and a gun

On the Hispanic land

Tex-mex knows their lingo

Prisoners for the gringo

 

Don’t hate the player

 

Why not

Find a way

 

Fix the fence

Or

 Fix the laws

 

Don’t hate the player

Taking a

  Walk through New York

Mainstream America

US of A

Saturated with millions from

 Kansas to LA

 

Wondering of welfare

And the streets that they share

Pinchi Mexicanos

Gang bangers they say

While farmers are looking

For Pepe and Jose

 

The coyotes are laughing

What a joke

 

Can’t find a worker

To hammer the nails

To many US loafers

Lazy gringos

 Computer heads

 

 

Don’t hate the player

Hire Brazeros to wire up that fence

 

Dam Mexicants

Crossing

Haitiants

Dominicants

Even

Salvadorants

 Cause they

 Work just like slaves

Only they cross the deserts

 No ships and no chains

Pinchi gringos

 Paying less than the wage

Yelling and screaming

This is your opportunity

Land of the free

Home of the brave

Filling their pockets and banking on me

 

Don’t hate the player

They can’t fix the flaws

 

Why not

Find a way

 

Fix the fence

Or

 Fix the laws

 

The sands of Death Valley

Reach all the way home

As Pancho

 Is nowhere to be found

La migra just lost

 Another chase

And still they keep crossing

Getting caught on the run

 

 

Don’t hate the player

 

Load up that bus

Send them back where they came from

1954

Illegal people dead through

2004

Each and every year

There’s

300 more

 

Don’t hate the player

 

Us of A

Land of the brave

Home of the free

Opportunity waiting for me

Remember 911?

How many hispanics

Made that last run?

 

Don’t hate the player

 

Given

Citizenship within

A casket

Sent to Iraq

And then on to

Afghanistan

making it back

in a body bag

 

Political frustration

Hate filled

Situation

Stupid immigration

 

Illegal

Legal hidden clause

 

Quit yelling at me

 

Fix the fence or Fix the laws

 

Don’t hate the player.

By Art Sun

 

 
  

 

Reviews

[Chloe..Across the Unive..]

This jumped out at me

"Given

Citizenship within

A casket

Sent to Iraq

And then on to

Afghanistan

making it back

in a body bag



Political frustration

Hate filled

Situation

Stupid immigration"--- !

Yes, it is stupid as you say .. I feel for those who have nothing in their own country who want to come here , and lately here there is nothing much but more than they can achieve there.
I wish they could come here legally without having to jump fences , ect.
Thought provoking thoughts.

Chloe

[soulsearching]

Very well written! .....Just because a person looks hispanic....it does not make him MEXICAN! ...sorry had to add that.

[G. K. Bostic]

Democants/ Republicants....good words, good poem, good perception and point of view... Will it be fixed? One can only hope.
Extremely well thought out and well written Art!

[DalainaRenee]

Love the music!! I totally agree. As contries we should be coming together to help each other instead of tearing one another down

[Ginger]

You really spoke the truth in this one
Art and I agree with you 100% ! Thank you for sharing this very powerful message

[Mauricio Montoya]

I’ve been on both side of the fence and I say bring down the fence after all there was no fence when they came a cross.

[Arabdha]

i have never come across a poem which is so much relevant to today's times..people forget that the immigrants are just victims of fate..and its not they who should be blamed..awesome poetry with a cause!!

[Magdelena]

Now this was amazing! You took the words right out of my head and put them forth on paper. 'Don't hate the player' is right.. The world is a crazy mixed up place, we all think we have to hate someone or something in it. Complain, complain, it's all we do.. This poem really made me think.. Fab imagery in it!

Mags xx

[Coyote Poetry]

World is getting more crazy. With half the budget going toward war. Fixing fences and education/many more needed things are low priority. USA is a country filled with immigrants. If you ain't Native American you came by boat to this land. Funny part about the western states. The Mexicans have been living in those parts for 2000 years. This is a hard topic. The way of economics. We may try to jump the border into Mexico soon. A excellent poem. You made me think again.
Coyote

[luciddreamer]

A strong write here.....and your right "don't hate the player"...at least imo you are.....