Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugees. Show all posts

Sunday, April 10, 2016

Refugees & More - a Poem


Old song of a ship sailing from Scotland to Canada
People continue to migrate all over the world
Seeking better lives
Stories of stories of stories
From one generation to the next
Groundhog Day upon Groundhog Day
The timeless, endless, humanizing project
Emptiness exploring emptiness
What it means to incarnate
To be embodied in flesh
Form in endless variety
Appearances only
From holy perfection
To apparent depths of depravity
To be born, live, grow old, and die as a sentient being
The material manifestation of (don’t even attempt a name)
That which words, ideas & concepts can’t begin to describe.

Refugee by Davide Monteleone nationalgeographic.com 

Monday, April 27, 2015

Without Love ...


     "People became like monsters. No one loves anyone anymore. People don't love each other at all, a brother doesn't even love his brother."

       a refugee, explaining why he, his pregnant wife and four young children risked their lives to flee war-torn Syria - CBS 60 Minutes, Sunday April 26, 2015

vigil to honor migrants who died at sea in Sliema, outside Valletta, April 22, 2015 - Darrin Zammit Lupi/Reuters