![]() No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying-leave, run, now. No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. I want to go home, but home is the mouth of a shark. This morning, Katherine wrote about Europe’s violent treatment of refugees and why American feminists should take note if it. You have to understand, that no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. The insults are easier to swallow than finding your child's body in the rubble. Poetry Break: Warsan Shire’s Home and the refugee crisis. And if you survive, greeted on the other side- Go home Blacks, dirty refugees, sucking our country dry of milk, dark with their hands out, smell strange, savage, look what they've done to their own countries, what will they do to ours? No one would choose to make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten, stripped and searched, finding prison everywhere. No one would choose to crawl under fences, beaten until your shadow leaves, raped, forced off the boat because you are darker, drowned, sold, starved, shot at the border like a sick animal, pitied. No one would choose days and nights in the stomach of a truck, unless the miles traveled meant something more than the journey. no one would choose to crawl under fences, be beaten until your shadow leaves you, raped, then drowned, forced to the bottom of the boat because you are darker, be sold, starved, shot at the border like a sick animal, be pitied, lose your name, lose your family, make a refugee camp a home for a year or two or ten, stripped and searched, find pri. No one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land. It's not something you ever thought about doing, so when you did, you carried the anthem under your breath, waiting until the airport toilet to tear up the passport and swallow, each mournful mouthful making it clear you would not be going back. No one would leave home unless home chased you. ![]() You only leave home when home won't let you stay. ![]() The boy you went to school with, who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. N o one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. ![]()
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