Dio Rivera Poems

Bang, Bang, Bang is all we hear
While we sit in the car full of fear
Thinking what did we do wrong
Thinking about my family back home
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Woman brutality is unacceptable
The way men treat women is just terrible
We all came from a woman when we were born
They raised us to grow like a crop of corn
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Imagine,
A place with Bridges and no walls
A school with no bullying in the halls
A place where deportation doesn't exist
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Walking out of the car in pain
Feels like I've just been hit with a chain
Holding my chest and my hip
Keeping balance trying not to trip
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I am from a rusty brown treehouse,
Where my brothers and I would hang out
From toy cars and figurines on the floor
I am from a small white house where the word "No" is a joke
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I am a brown warrior
Living in a society of horror
In a dark and dangerous place
Trying to get out, looking for ways
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