Lost In Tapachula Streets
© Surazeus
2025 07 03

Tina lies on her back in the weed field
and stares at blankness of the empty sky.
How horrible our country has become,
greedy men stealing money from the poor
so children will starve and people will die,
all while they pray to Jesus Christ for help.

Tina walks slowly along barbed-wire fence,
boots crunching on gravel from skulls of gods.
Faint comfort it is to me that my heart
shares this horror at their fascist disgrace
with millions of people across this land
who seem powerless to stop it, like me.

Tina crosses the highway at sunset
as trucks and cars speed past with gleaming lights.
Millions of women who generate life
will no longer be able to get care
from medical clinics which operate
on government-funded programs for health.

Tina buys sprite from the vending machine
then leans against the power pole and drinks.
Millions of people who cannot work well
will go hungry because food benefits
got cut to provide tax cuts for the rich
who control the food-production machine.

Tina walks toward the school library hall
to study American history books.
Millions of children eager to learn truth
based on analysis of observed facts
will instead be programmed to believe lies
about the complex history of our land.

Tina gasps in shock when gang of masked men
with rifles drag her into the black van.
People like me who were born in this land
and possess the birth-right citizenship
though my parents came here from Mexico
will get deported to some unknown land.

Tina shivers cold in the holding cell
with hundreds of women who stare in shock.
The great American experiment,
that insured justice and freedom for all
who work hard and follow the social rules,
has disappeared into state tyranny.

Tina steps off the giant screaming plane
and wanders lost in Tapachula streets.
My parents worked hard to start their new life
so though I lost everything they had gained
I will start my new life in this strange land
with souls of my ancestors in my heart.

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Orpheus helps Miguel search everywhere for his wife who had gone to the library to study for her history test, till he receives a call from her lost in Tapachula streets.

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