Kept in pens and fenced from the rest
For good fences make good neighbours.
As day follows night, dreams into nightmares
You wish you died, and ignored the snare.
From the serenity of your homeland
Your mother’s heart bleeds for your voice
As day follows night, she waits and waits
How would she know, you never made it?
You ran from the shadow of war
Seeking the shade of peace
And thought you sought your nadir
Only to live your frozen dreams.
With your repository of perennial courage
Looking for penitential acceptance
But dumped by the delete button
On the sands of Lampedusa.
You look back and the sunset is far away
Away from where you have come
As the sun goes down with you.
You wish, you never set out to come.
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