Good People

I was driving through town today and saw some protesters on the side of the road. Anyone who reads my blogs knows I'm very conservative. The sign read "Don't deport good people! Dismantle ICE!" I'm not going to say anymore because I think my poem below says just how I feel about that sign.

Good People

As they stand out there and protest for the rights of man. 

With their signs that say “don't deport good men who immigrated to this land.”

I become perplexed because the laws were put in place. 

For a safe society where few will be disgraced. 

Since when did we decide good men should be excluded?

Can they speed and murder and not be held liable or included? 

If you speed and get a ticket but are otherwise good;

Should you claim your right to speed because you are simply misunderstood? 

But that is the logic of those who call to dismantle ICE. 

They want to decide when the rule of law can be compromised. 

Where do we draw the line? How do we choose which laws to obey?

A civil society cannot succeed or even survive this way. 

But good people break laws too, and have to pay the price.

We are all imperfect human beings and we are not always so nice.

And when we break laws we learn how to live in the light

Through the discipline of the consequences of not doing what is right.

This is the way God made it from the beginning of time.

His laws were put in place for all of mankind.

As we raise our children, we teach them right and wrong. 

And we enforce consequences when they do not follow along. 

God has dealt with nations and Kings of the earth in the same way. 

The suffer the consequences when they fail to obey. 

You see good people don't truly exist, not according to God standard.

We all sin and miss the mark and fail to uphold God's holy banner.

So when I saw the sign that said “good people should not be deported.”

I think those good people broke our laws and should be escorted.

It's not that I don't care about them because they are all loved by God.

But they too, have to obey the laws laid down in this path they trod. 

Good people came to our country and I would love for them to stay.

But like every citizen that came over, our laws they must obey.

And when they do, we will embrace them as our own.

If they are truly good people they will obey our laws and make America their home.

© 2025 Sandra C. Johnson