I Migrated

I Migrated

I migrated

from near South Side

Chicago

to my Anahuacan past

without a Green Card,

an undocumented time traveler

shedding my Catholic skin

for my rattlesnake soul

and unraveling the defeated

forced-fed self-images

imposed by the red, white, and blue.

Reborn with an

Invincible Pride

and a place in Aztlan,

that unlike the ghetto,

does not bind us,

but frees our souls

with the promise of prophecy

telling us

we are somebody..

Peter Coyotl (2001)