
Bryan Hernandez
The Coldest and Brownest Call
I'm not the chosen one,
I don't speak for us all,
But when I speak, I echo every Latin call.
With accents you can't comprehend
I begin to say,
Living here has shown me some things, like
Your need for others to bleed,
Your need of my chaos for your peace
You need my work and someone to blame
You need anything that justifies your claim,
You then look for the savages who can't speak against you,
Your dogs and cats don't even taste good.
You want me to live, work, and die in your country,
But never be Red, white, and blue,
Just brown, like the soil where I work for you
The same soil the slaves died on,
Just guess how ironic it is seeing you operate,
Making my country a vibe, something to sell
Calling football soccer,
Calling yourself a whole continent?
Taking my good food, then making taco bell??
This really how deep your culture gets?
Maybe your “culture” mirrors your world,
The world built on the abuse of the POOR,
The poor with dreams of GLORY,
The glory that moves you to WAR,
The war there's nothing to gain from.
Maybe you don't even got a culture of your own.
Changing the name of a gulf
isn’t making your eggs price low,
And it sure ain't making you less hollow
Cause everything you touch, you destroy.
In the other hand, we latinos are
Where every marvel came to light,
When in the chasm you see a sugar cane farm,
You can hear the acoustics of a guitar,
Playing every song you couldn't possibly dance
A rainfall, And in the midst of its act
you hear a call;
There's some things you might forget
Like the suffering of the old and modern slaves,
The abuse of any demographic that's not a white guy
You were once in my country to take everything you can
Now I'm in your country and can't have anything back?
When you criminalize the search for my future
I won't stay quiet to hear you yap
If my people are illegal, what about your ass?
Unless you asked the natives pretty please for their land.
Everyday it gets colder, it gets harder to withstand
And now ICE is getting closer every day and night
You are moved by hate, while needing something from everyone else,
What's next?
You don’t care about my people anyways
If we leave and take everything that was mine
You'll be left with your sad little life.
While we party, and drink
With a happiness you can only dream
We are the magic you can't achieve.
Like the waves of the wild sea,
We are more genuine than you will ever be.
Bryan Jesus Hernandez Genao (he/him) is a Div I student who came from the Dominican Republic to bless us with his Wisdom and intelligence. Studying Secondary Education and holding a passion for writing, he is everywhere, in the wind, in the sky, in the sun, and in the International Students Lounge.