World Refugee Day

World Refugee Day

The unhealed consequences that is

The blight of our humanity

Is the daily prayer of millions.

Forced to flee homes, community and country

Persecuted by barbarism of elites

The Lords of War

Sheltering in air conditioned offices

In capitals of warmongering nations.

The mass graves of the Mediterranean

Belies the falsehood of civilization.

Millions eke out their meagre livelihoods

In parched lands

Drowning under the tsunami.

While privileged powerful

Wallow in the comforts of casino economics.

108 million people worldwide

Forcibily displaced today.

Human rights violated.

Societal cohesion shredded

In the pursuit of power and money.

This is inflection point.

Destruction and disconnection has

Severed our relationships

Between nations, cultures and people.

Betwixt us and Nature.

It’s time to re-calibrate

Become conscious stewards

Underpinned by compassion

And solidarity.

Seeking peace within.

And finding that thread of humanity

An invincible love that leaves

No one behind.

And then the need for a World Refugee Day

Disappears from our calendar.

But remains engraved in memory

Lest we forget.

🙏❤️💙💚