Communities Within Communities.

 

They say we are united as a nation.

I think that needs a little bit of explaining.

I grew up in a friendly community.

Now all I see is tension and adversity.

 

There is no longer such a thing as one big community.

There are communities within communities, divided politically, socially and culturally.

No more open doors and welcome your neighbours in.

Just tittle tattle behind net curtains, everyone full of suspicion.

 

Little pockets of our land trying to protect what they used to be.

Treating everyone from all walks of life honestly and equally.

Hanging on by a thread to our British identity.

While our cities and towns are being taken over by different nationalities.

 

We are proud to be the land of the free and democracy.

Yet we are now in our birth land treated like the minority.

We cannot speak freely for fear of offending.

Our history and our culture they keep lambasting.

 

We welcome people in from all parts of the world.

Who are being persecuted or will be killed or, so we are told.

Absolutely no idea of who these people really are.

They bring with them all their unknown troubled past.

 

I always struggle to understand that if I was genuinely fleeing for my life.

I would settle in the first country that I'd arrived.

There will be no need to risk my life further in a dinghy boat across the water.

Permanently indebting myself to the slavery master.

 

In the country that offered me the safety and security.

I would abide by the rules and integrate with the community.

I would produce my papers and paperwork and not throw it in the sea.

I would undertake and fulfil any questions with total honesty.

 

With both hands I would grab whatever they offered me.

Forever be grateful for my safety and security.

Because I would no longer be in fear of my life and persecution.

I certainly would not be complaining about my human rights to the United Nations.

 

Now in their thousands these young men are building communities within our communities.

Becoming ever more a serious threat to our safety and security.

They bring with them their rules and street code from their homeland.

Our culture they have no intention of integrating into or trying to understand.

 

They are slowly but surely taking over.

Pushing the British way of life into a corner.

Unless these issues start being dealt with properly.

We are in danger of never again seeing or living in a proper community.

 

Tobani October (2024)