Our Constitution is not a paper you can just flush away,

"Anchors Aweigh,""Semper Fi," "Semper Paratus," "Service Before Self,"

"This We’ll defend," have put so many in the deep of the ocean,

in tombs on land, and in ashes floating from the sky,

Upholding a Document so dear,

Yet others out of fear seek to destroy

Its binding gift that many times over was put aside.

As a President said,

“All we have to fear is fear itself.” And yet he succumbed

Placing many a soul behind barbed wire fence,

Japanese, Italians and Germans too.

600,000 Italians, 1.2 million German aliens

Too large to confine more than a handful

Yet120,000 Issei and Nisei

removed from their homes and businesses

Placed in detention camps until the end of the War,

Better than reservations where hope lingers by strings

As loss of identity and meaninglessness year after year takes its toll,

Pipelines cross their sacred ground polluting spring and source

Washington a bed of confusion and dismay.

Where ego flexes its power

Releasing edicts lacking deliberations about liberation

Conflicting with the renowned ruling Declaration and Creation

Responding with rhetorical overtones, intimations, and unfounded allusions

Causing many to fear our demise as a free immigrant nation.