immigration

Flight

The noise is deafening.
My heart pounding in my chest,
Louder than the sound of the plane’s engines.
Excitement, anxiety, longing is excruciating.
People all around me: so close, yet so far.
A sound came and added the excruciating wait
Announcing, “We will shortly depart. Fasten in your seat.”
This flight is not just my freedom flight.
This flight has taken me home.

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Ode to the Nameless Immigrant

Ode to you:
He, who seeks a better tomorrow
He, who is willing to leave in the past
All that he ever knew to be true,
All of the things, the faith, the hope and the dreams
That fit tightly in a backpack
As a souvenir
Of a life that just wasn’t meant to be lived

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I See You

By BH Looking through caged windows So many faces, so much pain Immigrants being treated less than animals Hunted down and casted away Homeless, displaced with nowhere to escape God’s…

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A Call to Action

By BH DREAMERS Running from terror Chasing freedom Only to find themselves stuck in cages Searching for love But Met with hatred Surrounded by foreign faces Willing to work to pave…

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The Untold Story of Me

By AC Inspired by the book Voces Sin Fronteras (Shout Mouse Press)   1985 I was born in El Salvador, right in the middle of a civil war. There was…

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