Repeating the Past

Mass deportations, the removal of citizenship even from people born in the country. A generational sweep up of a community, targeting those marked out and vilified as an existential threat. Is history about to repeat itself? Not exactly, but there are parallels, and there is a gathering storm.

Repeating the Past

The clear blue sky, then a storm cloud
Darkening skies threaten the worse
First the rallies, and cheering crowd
And for the outsider comes a curse

Night darkens, and dim the lamps
The rulers decide, and take a stand
Round them all up, place in camps
For we have to protect our land

Now the hurricane unleashes force
The stranger, the alien, blown away
Mass deportations take their course
Oblivion is waiting, so they say

We have been along this bad road before
Taken by a leader whose followers adore