Whose land is it anyway?

You say kick them out
They don’t belong here
You say they steal your taxes
Yet half this land was Mexico’s
So who’s to say
That it’s not rightfully theirs?
California, Arizona,
New Mexico, or Texas
Once Mexico’s, once Spain’s
Once not even theirs
Once it was from natives,
Not yours, not mine, but theirs.
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It all depends how far back you go
But in the end, not yours nor mine
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And this nation pridefully says
We are a nation of immigrants
But hypocritically says stay out
We don’t want you here
But what do we say of the land we usurped
But what do we say to poor nations today
That are how the nations we came from once were
But don’t come here with your misery
Stay there and don’t have children
That will solve your problems
We don’t want you to come and flourish
We don’t want you to have the chance we once had
But I ask is this really yours to say?
I will ask you now
Whose land is it anyway?

La Mujer sin Alas

Una vez, la mujer sin alas

Tiró una roca a la mar

Había visto estrellas,

Y conchas, y algas regresar

Había visto,

                                Hasta peces volar.

Ella pensó que vendría

Como un presagio, una señal

Con una historia, un comenzar

Tal vez un guapo joven,

La iba a encontrar

Pensó sin recordar

Que piedra a ella estaba atada

Y tiró ella sin pensar

Que ella misma se iba a ahorcar

La barca de aventura fue el soñar

Y estar anclada fue su error

Y aquella que al viento, a las olas susurró

Aquella sabia gaviota

Volando, diciendo:

La mujer sin alas 
Se ahogó sin libertad

She asks for a friend

There is nothing to do
When death comes to you
She asks for a friend
But you don't accept
The request you deny
Not yours to reject

But it was yours the hand
Which closed devil's deal
You just didn't know
You thought it would heal
But. it. did. not.

You said I will kill
The enemy now
So you closed your eyes
Swung the weapon around
You didn't see who
Was standing behind

The blade didn't miss
What you wanted to protect
As if mad, as if blind
The one you called friend.