Welcome to the world.

You're not welcome if you stand for peace.
You're not welcome if you oppose.
You're not welcome if it makes you nauseous.

You're welcome if you fit right in.
You're welcome if you close an eye.
You're welcome if you love what you have.
You're welcome when you're home.

Home is gunshots
lulling you to sleep.

Home is the silence of children
too dire to cry.

Home is stillness
empowered by poverty.

Home is distant sympathy
when all you know is comfort.

I will never get home until you are.
For I am unwelcome.