We are like refugee animals that flee to find safety and shelter. Like migratory animals, refugees travel long distances to escape violence, hunger, and human rights violations in their homelands. However, unlike animals that navigate using natural cues, refugees must travel without guidance and face disorientation in new lands. Refugees seek refuge hoping that the declaration of human rights will be respected, but often find only suspicion and fear instead of safety.
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Refugees. A Poem
1. REFUGEES
We are Refugee animals, they and I.
The fight to survive is what it's all about,
The fight to survive.
Have you wondered why
We settle in groups?
Have you wondered that it might be for protection?
We hitch lifts on the ocean where winds and currents carry us to safety
And then, after a while on the long journey, some of us shrink
Like birds in flight lose the thickness of non-essential organs
To be light.
Some of us come from far, far away
Like hump back whales we are,
Like us they are, travelling more than 8,500 kms each way.
And when we get to the foreign land
Still shocked from attacks of gunfire, bombs and famine,
When we arrive
Away from governments which lock up our rights
And burn our ancestral memories,
When we arrive and expect to be offered safety
Like, because we are human, we expect that right
The right to safety we expect wherever we go
Then we find
The graves with our ancestral memories
Violated by suspicion and fear.
No, we do not come to take away your minerals
Like an African elephant or wildebeest going to
Search for essential oils.
No, we do not run away from harsh winters where we come from
Like a Caribbean spiny lobster,
But like them we run to find shelter.
Not like the monarch butterfly,
Which holds the record for the longest insect migration, for
We do not flee to break records.
Not like that, we are not.
But like starving animals, we also flee because we are hungry and dying
We flee because we think the
Declaration of Human Rights Is respected by all.
No, we do not go in search of a mate
Like the male sperm whale looking for places to lay eggs
Nor are we like the desert locus, looking for places to give birth.
We fight, fly, flee, for the right to safety.
Some of our animal refugee cousins form other systems of migration,
Where only one sex or part of a species’ population is involved.
We are different, for when we come
We would like to be joined by our children too.
Please do not deny us the right to our families