Beneath The Stars

Girl, you sleep beneath the stars.

Moonlight shines
Revealing dusty skin,
Your fragile kin.

Squares of white sheets
Poorly protect your tribe.
Mimicking homes,
     Collapsed.

How can you sleep?

Spokesperson tucked in,
Comfortably.
Forgot he won unfairly
Home of the natives.

I understand his intricate language.
He doesn't speak ours. I'm terrified.

What will you really get?

 

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