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THE  BLESSINGS OF THY FATHERS

Well aren’t you better off than your homeland brothers

And better yet than your own fathers and your mothers

What blessings you may ask

Well that’s not too hard a task

In India, Africa, China or southeast Asia

Even good old Europe or far off Guyana

Most of you have your own car, land or a fridge

A house with mown lawn with a wide frontage

And maybe some dollars in your bank account

And even a pony or horse in a stable to mount

For you’re the products of a very proud heritage

And real honest pioneers who showed courage

Those who toiled today can show the results

In peace far from violence and nasty insults

When some tried to pray to Ram or Allah

Or to return to the Motherland of India

They were also struck dumb when they landed 

Since then Motherlands aren’t being demanded

Really! could this were where we yearned to go 

The squalor, filth and poverty gave us a big blow

The caste system, and women’s maltreatment

An ancient way of life so hideously indecent

Very shocking and disappointed we returned home

With thanks to our forefathers who left that dome

As many in America still complaining woefully

After 175 years about not given the opportunity

Still suffocating in food stamps and steep in welfare 

Others are scraping and crawling to come over here

They’re still blaming Caucasians for their freedom

As others risk deadly shark infested waters to come

And other immigrants just came over within decades 

Doing the menial chores in farms, kitchens and maids

And they have risen above the standards of the natives

Who are still stewing over same old same old motives 

Have they forgotten how their forefathers denied entry

To Sikhs,Jews,Haitians and folks from other ancestry? 

Then the other motherland Africa still struggling

Blaming the west and others for their suffering

Her politicians and leaders forever in tribal warfare

Invade, defy, doing what they want without any care