Lists

How did he get on a no fly list?

Law abiding citizen, no record,

Never broke the law, was issued

A passport, found out at the airport.

Who put him on the list, why, when?

No details available. Why wasn’t

He informed, given a chance to

Defend himself? Are you on a list?

How many rights and freedoms

Have we surrendered, lost over

The past several years? Why do

We stand by as this happens?

Do they have a list to make

People disappear in the night?

Who are “They”? Who gave them

The authority? Are you on a list?

This is 2009 in Canada, the USA!

Not Russia, not China, not Chile

Yesterday, it’s North America!

Now! 2009!

How many lists are you on?

How many lists am I on?

Let me look at you again

Be swallowed by your eyes

Surrender to what you could

Do to me, before we might

Disappear in the night.

Stephen Nesbitt ©