Monday, 27 January 2020

leaving home


The wind blowing over the hill
Out of sight a rumbling sound
The drifting aroma made him feel ill
He climbed the hill to look around

The column of walking humanity
With all their procession to bear
Fleeing from man's brutality
Moving onward to anywhere

He stopped to watch them walk by
The poor the sick young and old
Tears stained faces that no longer cry
Independence lost doing as they’re told

Unwashed with road dust clinging
To clothes and faces in the creases
Back pack and bags painful swinging
The march onward never ceases

Hatred and war from where they came
Walking the Promised Land deigned
The resentment is still the same
Moved on if resting they tried

The dregs of humanity in flight
Marching that inglorious track
No martyrs death in glorious fight
Facing forward never back


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