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I have not tried to see Through the eyes of a refugee I am aware of them Here and there And in between But I have not seen Through their eyes I have not measured I have not weighed The worlds they leave Nor the worlds they imagine Across the sea I know one of them Through a friend When her journey ended She said she started off In a wave Of many hopeful souls She has now arrived In her new world Has a husband And a child And a house And a new tongue to talk in Though introduced We never met Her wounded way From there to here Was flooded in tears An inundation An escape An emigration Of desperation Manipulation By a gauntlet of men A bartering of copulation Then, Immigration “The rest died Only I survived” She said Sean Hunt Jan 2 2017
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Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 4:01 PM UTC
Refugees
I have not tried to see Through the eyes of a refugee I am aware of them Here and there And in between But I have not seen Through their eyes I have not measured I have not weighed The worlds they leave Nor the worlds they imagine Across the sea I know one of them Through a friend When her journey ended She said she started off In a wave Of many hopeful souls She has now arrived In her new world Has a husband And a child And a house And a new tongue to talk in Though introduced We never met Her wounded way From there to here Was flooded in tears An inundation An escape An emigration Of desperation Manipulation By a gauntlet of men A bartering of copulation Then, Immigration “The rest died Only I survived” She said Sean Hunt Jan 2 2017
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Jan 2, 2017
Jan 2, 2017 at 4:01 PM UTC
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