Cold as ICE
A poetic tribute to everyone effected by ICE
I walked outside to warm weather and felt a wind chill.
What met my eyes spun my brain like windmill.
Hot feet were everywhere and it’s like no one could sit still.
Americans were being harassed. This is where it gets real.
Walking down the street it’s like no one is holding rights.
It no longer matters if you even know your rights.
It’s being taken away from you. There goes your rights.
The temperature of America has gotten cold as ICE.
United States Immigration and Customs Enforcers.
Stalking the streets of the country and inflicting torture.
Snatching hard working men and women out of their homes like savages.
This was just the beginning of their many ravages.
Innocent children being abducted from their school halls.
Detained by masked thugs. When will these faceless fools fall.
Immigrants or not they did nothing to deserve this.
Even being an illegal doesn’t mean they earned this.
They say they’re beating socialism, by what? Instilling a fascist society.
This isn’t justice and I will not let you lie to me.
It’s like freedom and equality in this country is no longer a must.
We are ruled by tyranny and our nation has become unjust.
I mean it always was, but now things have gotten worse.
Are the innocent who walk this land meant to be cursed.
By a government that never stays true to its letter.
Just working overtime making the country look like their definition of better.
It’s at the expense of casting good people out. Yet they keep bad people in.
They never judge the unruly for their evil or sins.
But the innocent get sent away and made an example of the nation’s power.
Yes. We really have become a nation full of cowards.
We have to take a stand. Be fearless and bold for our fellow man’s rights.
How do we protect the innocent in a world cold as ICE?

~ Dedicated to everyone who has been effected by ICE.
About the Creator
Joe Patterson
Hi I'm Joe Patterson. I am a writer at heart who is a big geek for film, music, and literature, which have all inspired me to be a writer. I rap, write stories both short and long, and I'm also aspiring to be an author and a filmmaker.



Comments (4)
Oh lovely very powerful and heartbreaking really powerful piece and thank you for speaking out honestly this is important 💜
ICE is terrorizing my students. https://todaysurvey.today/writers/ice-ice-baby-i424cz0v21%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/span%3E%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv class="css-w4qknv-Replies">
Powerful words, Joe! Our country is no longer powerful. It is weak! Hopefully we can turn this around.
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