Mercy never knew anyone so true
It pleads for humanity to see
To understand as more than one
To be, to feel, to act collectively
This founded way of living
Never seemed so unraveled
And suddenly has no meaning
We tried to build on the shoulders of equality
That is why we left and that is how we arrived
We don’t embrace the history
We run
We hide
And when we venture out
It’s to point the finger
To assign the blame
To get to the root of justice that hasn’t begun to grow
Do we really fear the unknown
Or a past that was never acknowledged
So how can it belong anywhere in time
If it exists only in our mind
When it is not our problem
When we suddenly don’t understand grief
We are so doomed
So condemned to disbelief
We won’t find mercy
We won’t find relief
Our future, fathered by mistrust and doubt
Oh what a place to bury a growing spirit
There is no greatness
Just insignificance
If that is where we live
If that is the truth we conceive
How will we ever earn the country we deserve
A country we can believe
Jennifer Barajas
A Dead Language 