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Ignorance (the wall that lies between us)

They were far too different from us,  
that’s why we had to build the wall.
"A bunch of lousy criminals,  
Who rape and kill and break the law."
 
“It just isn’t American!
Their skin is much too tan!
They speak a foreign language
That we can’t understand.”
 
And so we built a wall between us,
To separate ourselves from them.
But little did we know,
That our minds were closing in.
 
For what we thought to be so different
Was very much the same,
But with a different color,
Called by a different name.
Written by NewBeginnings
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Author's Note
This poem was written for a poetry competition entitled "Tear down the wall", pertaining to the wall that Trump is trying to build along the southern border between Mexico and the United States.
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