With hurt in her eyes and tears on her face,
I will never forget that scene
or the many others associated with that place--
the poverty, the gratitude, the suffering theme--
it haunts me still, the people's plight.
Ousted by murdering prejudice of religious hate,
the thousands of refugees. Oh, the sight.
The endless tracts of tents, war,s fate,
"my family", living in a 10' by 9" room,
all eleven of them--grandparents, parents, kids--
choosing to live just over the border's boom
in a hundred-*Mark-a-month apartment--
the price for a front row seat to returning--
four walls, a door, and not much else.
The Aunt telling me, "He cried me out," crying.
(That is to say he bawled her out since
I had visited the family last.)
Sometimes I wish somehow I'll see them again,
just to know that they made it back home at last--
that they are safe and sound and well again.
I wish peace on all the former refugees,
all those who where huddled in old, tarp-covered wagons,
escaping genocide and the killing breeze--
the haunting suffering of a bloody gun--
it haunts me still, the people's plight.
*The now defunct German Mark. At this time 100 Mark equaled about $60.
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