Saturday 11 March 2023

A Poem a Day (565): Crossing water


Crossing water (a rondeau)
 
Listen to the silencing - 
they say your journey is a sin.
Our beliefs are who we are, not the things they sow,
they’re standing on the high-brow.
Those crossing need a way of being.
 
They pick numbers that aren’t fair,
talk cheaply of life choked of air,
but the people have nowhere to go.
We are listening.
 
The spin can sound so charming,
but to the victims they’re not listening.
Compassion is something we all know,
so surely empathy can only grow?
Who is out there listening?
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, March 11, 2023


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