by David Tahvildaran
Winged stars raining down
The tides turn as they touch down
Passionate clouds rise
Winds carry fear far
Making us the enemy
Waiting anxiously
Orders to leave here
No answer to where there is
Just us from the coast
We take homes of cattle
Leave behind home, luggage, friends
And humanity
Years go by, as the
World spins faster around us
We adapt, we survive
No way to escape
By day, runners are put to
Rest, we mourn them all
Night is only worse
Don’t touch the door knob, it won’t
Give you your skin back
Liberation has come
Months later our homeland falls
We, the world, start anew
First Issei struggled
Now Nissei share the same fate
The clock has set back
Reparations come
Parsed out over the decades
That time, forever lost
Spring 2015 