(Refugee crisis spring 2017)



Assyria...Row the boat, ashore

250 drowned 
In the pulsing waves
of the Mediterranean,
The unlucky, 
Wrong place, wrong time...
The living
welcomed.

Fleeing 
dangerous borders 
families desperate 
for anywhere 
but here.

I see their
Pleading eyes
In my dreams...


45 laughed 
at them
refused entry
Called them "Other"...

How many perished 
In the Atlantic?
The unlucky.
Wrong country, wrong religion

Children 
Daring to request solace
Into this Gold plated 
paradise...

Expecting our mercy
believing themselves worthy
Of Milk & Honey
On the other side...




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