Friday, October 9, 2015

"Home is Where the Heart is" ~ A OBAA Poem

I must leave now. 
My community, my people, 
my family, my wealth, 
the status that I have earned
 through decades of service 
I leave all of this 
behind. 
I go to join the millions the refugees 
in Sudan

Would you go to paradise 
If it meant 
knowing 
no one? 

Would you give up
everything
You had ever
known? 

Please Remember
your country
Remember us
Your people

We entered a plane, 
First from Khartoum
Then Athens
And from there, 
Amerikha 
And there
A New Life 

When we arrived,
My father had told us
Tewolda and Salamawi,
Get your shoes on. 
We need to Adventure 
Outside
In our new home 



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