What Will Happen to Us?

Nine percent of the people
Think its okay
To have the Nazi views
In this day and age
Thats 22 million
To you and me
22 million haters
Of Jews and people like me
I am a person of color
You see
I’ll never be white
I can plainly see
My grandfather fought in the war
My grandfather paid a high price
For me to be here
And not in the fields
Harvesting rice
My grandmother said
Oh so long ago
“ America is where dreams are made”
“Where seeds are sown”
“You can be who you want”
“You can live to be free”
Not under a dictatorship
Like your grandfather and me
We lived with secrets
We lived in fear
Speaking against the government
At night, you would disappear
What will happen to the Jews, the gays, people of color
Those “ life unworthy of life”
(German: Lebensunwertes Leben), including prisoners, degenerate, dissident, people with congenital cognitive and physical disabilities (including feebleminded, epileptic, schizophrenic, manic-depressive, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, deaf, blind) (German: erbkranken), homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain
We will never be part
Of the “ pure race”
The master race
That the Nazis so craved
Will you speak up
For us?
Will you put your life
On the line
When we are the victims
Of the white supremacists crimes?
Or will you let
History repeat itself
Because you were blind
Blind to the hate
Blind to our worst fears
What will happen to us?
Will you even
Shed a tear?
