These people behind high steel picket fence crowned with sharp razor wire <br />But these people are not criminals in them much to admire <br />They only want a better life and that should not be a crime <br />These people from harsh treatment who look aged beyond their prime. <br /> <br />This man he loves his children and is devoted to his wife <br />And the only reason he brought them here is to give them a better life <br />In their Homeland persecuted as they belong to a minority <br />And like others of their kind in fear of their lives their Land of birth they did flee. <br /> <br />These people have known great hardships and they have lived through hell <br />And few stories of happy times in their lives they can tell <br />They came here for a better life and for that with their loss of freedom they must pay <br />The victims of demonization who fled persecution far away. <br /> <br />These people are not criminals or bad in any way <br />Their sin to be born in the wrong place though in that they had no say <br />They came here for a better life though here too for them no fair play <br />And man's inhumanity to man alive and well today<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/these-people/
