The Present Crisis With Refugees

Is that when they buy places on leaky boats
to flee famine and war, then the only currency,
if they have anything, is debt. They have no land,
no reliable relatives, and no right say 'No'
when someone bids them 'Go', or refuses
to process their claim to stay where they hope to escape
the lack of safe backyard that they have got stuck in.  

Ask any absolute ruler for rights if you dare to.
For them their backyard is where they rule,
where refusing lesser peoples rights is second nature.
The subjects who live there dare not ask for rights,
for fear of refusal and marks chalked up against them.

When absolute rule leaves them absolutely bereft
many travel to seek a more secure sense of security.

It should be no surprise that so many refugees
get drowned in flimsy rafts on indifferent seas,
in debt and their money spent, seeking security
in host countries they are  told will accept them
where they don't know they have been lied to.

The seas are honest and fair,
compared with the liars
who got refugees to where
being drowned was easier
than getting out of the debts
incurred in the forced travel
they had been sold into accepting.