Muslim Ban: Let Them Speak

They cannot speak,

for everyone else has spoken for them.

Our interpretations given

for their words unsaid.

They do not hate

as others do,

yet we call them the same.

As if sharing a country,

an origin,

a name,

equates to a share in sin.

They cannot speak,

for everyone else has spoken for them.

Our interpretations given

for their words unsaid.

They do not trust,

for we turn them away.

Forcing them back,

home to the terrorists

who have hurt some of them more

than any attack

done at our door.

They cannot speak,

for everyone else has spoken for them.

Our interpretations given

for their words unsaid.

They do not fight,

for they preach only peace.

Yet those words of theirs go unheard.

We only see what we’ve already determined.

Our ignorance a heavy blow.

All of us refusing to hear the bluebird,

after we glimpsed the wing of a crow.

They cannot speak,

for everyone else has spoken for them.

Our interpretations given

for their words unsaid.

They are not the killers;

we are.

Killing the innocents,

through our blindness.

We have condemned all the good

because somewhere

there is bad.

They cannot speak,

for everyone else has spoken for them.

Our interpretations given

for their words unsaid.