The Pit, By Brian37 (AKA Brian James Rational Poet on FB/META and @Brianrrs37 on Twitter/X)

Do you want to dump them in a pit
You talk of them as “scourge” quite a bit
Is it your deepest desire, to set them all on fire?

Do you want to march them out in masses
Do you want to erase their history
Do you want them to suffer in misery

You demand they show their papers
You claim you’re only protecting our borders
Your rhetoric is a ghost of horrors

We’ve seen this script before

Do you want to dump them in a pit
Make them dig it themselves
Do you think they deserve all of it

If you claim it’s all for God, do you think it absolves
That piercing hate in your eyes, sold to you
By the dear leader’s lies, immunized to their cries

That they are humans too?

Do you want to dump them in a pit
You call them “abominations” quite a bit
Is it your deepest desire to set them all on fire?

We’ve seen this script before

I can see that man knelt in his suit
Numb stare in his eyes, gun pointed
At his head, right before he dies

You talk of Hispanics, you talk of blacks
You talk of LGBTQ with that meanness
Rancor, vitriol, we’ve seen this script before

Do you want to dump them in a pit
You talk of them like “dirt” quite a bit
Is it your deep desire to set them all on fire?

I say no way, you won’t have your say
They are human’s just like you
You will not repeat that history

Humanity must never again such do.
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I am so fucking sick of the hate aimed at migrants and blacks and LGBTQ. We have seen where that kind of hate and vitriol can lead in human history. We must not let history repeat itself.

This stanza is based on that famous photograph where the “Einsatzgruppen” or “death squads” would force Jews to dig their own pits, then execute them by gunfire.

“I can see that man knelt in his suit
Numb stare in his eyes, gun pointed
At his head, right before he dies “

Based on this famous photograph.