by Charles Frederickson
15 million stateless and counting
Global population shifts forced migration
Homeless pigeons tossed stale crumbs
No win impasse future tense
Hordes of disenfranchised nobody cares
Hidden away in cobwebbed corners
Prey hanging by single thread
No recourse to hang onto
Dysfunctional loving families torn asunder
Betrayed innocence toddlers self-help crawlers
Disadvantaged youth deprived of childhood
No man’s land trespassers forbidden
Caught in limbo borderline standoff
Teeming swarm mass poverty survivors
Begging for mercy leftover discards
No place to be somebody
Bittersweet tainted lifeblood turned sour
Indigent workers banished from hive
None of anybody’s business honeycombs
No job prospects sticky wickets
Without citizenship basic needs unmet
Overturned slippery welcome mats yanked
In denial repatriation fearsome threat
Nowhere to call own home
Dr. Charles Frederickson is a Swedish-American-Thai pragmatic optimist, idealistic visionary and heretical believer who has wandered intrepidly through 206 countries, an original sketch and poem for each presented on http://www.imagesof.8k.com/. This maverick e-gadfly is a member of World Poets Society, based in Greece, with 200+ poetry publication credits on 6 continents, such as: angelfire, Ascent Aspirations, Auckland Poetry, bc supernet, Blind Man’s Rainbow, Both Sides Now, Caveat Lector, Cordite Poetry Review, Dance to Death, Decanto, Eclipse, Flutter Magazine, Greatworks, Green Dove, Indite Circle, International Poet, Listen & Be Heard, Living Poets, Madpoetry, Melange, Newtopia, Planet Authority, Poetisphere, Poetry Canada, Poetry of Scotland, Poetry Stop, Poets for Peace, Poetry Superhighway, Pyramid, Sage of Consciousness, Stellar Showcase, Subtle Tea, Sz, The Smoking Poet, T-zero, Ya’Sou! Ygdrasil, Zafusy.
