We all pay
For citizenship
Obeying the foreign hand
Borrowing time
Treading gingerly
Along the borders
Of a stolen land.
Drenched and dying
Depressed and dispossessed
Birthright discarded
After birth
Our blood
Is branded and sold
In a red can.
Life is death
Commonplace
Living a cliché
Timeless
Sometimes life
Is just death
But warmer.
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