Foreigner Poem by Unnikrishnan Sivasankara Menon

A video goes round
of a lady abusing a boy
of being an intruder
into Canada, ‘her country'.

I find the accuser a European
definitely descended of migrants
from that continent, maybe
just a few generations back.

Her right to ‘her country'
not different from that of
the person she accuses
of being an ‘unwelcome intruder'.

Her ancestors too were
unwelcome intruders into
this land of many tribes
of aboriginal peoples,

whom her ancestors massacred
decimated in many a genocides,
her ancestors were criminals
murderers and land grabbers,

whose crimes against humanity
were legalised by themselves
under laws drafted by themselves
to suit their criminal existence.

Someone need to show her the mass graves
of little aboriginal children who were massacred
in schools where they were enlisted, by 'authorities'
to eradicate the aboriginal communities without a trace.

Under the principle of ‘first come, first go'
the accuser needs to be deported first
along with all those whose ancestors
usurped the land and lives of the aboriginal peoples,

for Canada is not her land
any more than that of the boy
she'd accused of intruding,
it is his, now a citizen under the laws of the nation.