A MUSICAL Investigation of Current Food Slavery in America

In my Writing 2010 class, our teacher gave us the task of transforming essays into a new medium- any medium we wanted that supported our argument campaign essay. Being a little freshman music nerd, my mind immediately loved the thought of compiling a 'soundtrack' of sorts to compliment my paper.

Although American's value cheap food, this value sends destitute immigrants, legal and illegal, into a form of slavery that must be stopped.

Here it is: The music of my essay.

They left their homes and family

Their father said "My sons one thing you will learn

For everything the north gives it exacts a price in return."

They worked side by side in the orchards

From morning till the day was through

Doing the work the hueros wouldn't do.

Took my first breath where the buddy Brazos 

spills into the Gulf of Mexico,

and the skylines colored by chemical plants

put bread on the table of the working man.

Where the working man does his best to provide

safety and shelter for his kids and wife,

Giving a little of his soul every day,

making overtime to keep the wolves away.

And in the naked light I saw

Ten thousand people, maybe more.

People talking without speaking,

People hearing without listening,

People writing songs that voices never share

And no one dared

Disturb the sound of silence.

"fools," said I, "You do not know -

Silence like a cancer grows.

Hear my words that I might teach you.

Take my arms that I might reach you."

But my words like silent raindrops fell

And echoed in the wells of silence.