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Title: We Refugees Source: https://m.poemhunter.com/poem/we-refugees/ Authors: Benjamin Zephaniah Topics: anti-racism, poetry, anti-racist
I come from a musical place
Where they shoot me for my song
And my brother has been tortured
By my brother in my land.
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I come from a beautiful place
Where they hate my shade of skin
They don't like the way I pray
And they ban free poetry.
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I come from a beautiful place
Where girls cannot go to school
There you are told what to believe
And even young boys must grow beards.
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I come from a great old forest
I think it is now a field
And the people I once knew
Are not there now.
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We can all be refugees
Nobody is safe,
All it takes is a mad leader
Or no rain to bring forth food,
We can all be refugees
We can all be told to go,
We can be hated by someone
For being someone.
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I come from a beautiful place
Where the valley floods each year
And each year the hurricane tells us
That we must keep moving on.
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I come from an ancient place
All my family were born there
And I would like to go there
But I really want to live.
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I come from a sunny, sandy place
Where tourists go to darken skin
And dealers like to sell guns there
I just can't tell you what's the price.
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I am told I have no country now
I am told I am a lie
I am told that modern history books
May forget my name.
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We can all be refugees
Sometimes it only takes a day,
Sometimes it only takes a handshake
Or a paper that is signed.
We all came from refugees
Nobody simply just appeared,
Nobody's here without a struggle,
And why should we live in fear
Of the weather or the troubles?
We all came here from somewhere.