They’ll erase you

That is the goal

Remove you from your land

From your heritage your lineage

Push you as far from your origin as possible

Make you forget your real names

Make you adopt theirs

Began using the last names

Of your fathers just like them

In order to establish the dominance of the male

We used to make our names

Based on our traits our virtues

Not in order to propagate the trope of male dominance

They’ll take everything from you

They will define you if you let them

Slander you at will

Condense millennia of your heritage

From the top of Alaska to the tip of South America

And reduce it to the simple image

of the feather headed face

reduce it to a mascot or a plumed profile

they want us to be like them

though they will never accept us

want us to be in their armies

fly their hideous flag in front

of our homes as an act of assimilation

as an act of conformity and domination

as they take possession of refugee children

and disappear them into the nether

of Arizona, of New Mexico, of Texas and California

Never to be seen or heard from again

As their family is met by an empty plane

On a tarmac in Mexico City, in Guadalajara, in Tegucigalpa

34,000 beds need to be filled in their concentration camps

Need to keep the funding funneling into Corporate coffers

Into the finances of the fat cat families

That we hold up as the standard bearer for success

In our “small a” American eyes 

The same America championed by Hitler

For its eugenics and segregation of the brown races

AH so admired our leaders

he named his personal freight train Amerika

No ancestor of mine ever

killed and slaughtered 

an entire culture 

in order to possess

the others possessions