BORDER PATROL AGENT’S DESOLATION

As I walk through this desolation alone

I stay alert and maintain my senses hone

My backup I know is miles away

Yet from this resolute path I will not stray

Searing heat, freezing rain or numbing cold

Do not impede my progress as I trek the forsaken road

My oath is to protect and serve

And I’ll be damned if I break my word

I reflect on the public’s scrutiny and their chastise

As I toil in the midst of threat, and darkness of night

Unbeknown to them is that I do not judge

I am unbiased, and from this credence I will not budge

For I do not decree a sentence upon anyone

I am only an Agent in pursuit of an entity on the run

I am aware that it takes just one for our boundaries to breach

In order to violate America’s children and her keep

It was not long ago that America beckoned foreigners with her luminous torch

Welcoming distant nations and their people to her gracious shores

Times are different now, and have become a threat

So I preserve my allegiance and labor with no regret

For when I lay that felon and his disgrace upon America’s feet

And bear witness to her defiance as she maintains a poise of no defeat

That I can attest to her anguish because I am there

To arrest the wolf in sheep’s clothing

While the oblivious sleep, and my beloved mother, wife, and children kneel in prayer

Author, SPA Lee Cabrera