Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Migrants arriving at European borders

How wonderful the European stars must look

strung along the wire strands of border fences

or those butterflies, the endless coils of razor wire.


One might, upon seeing them, be reminded of staves

of music: Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms

or lines of text: Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes,


or how civilisation was aghast seeing those photographs:

the skeletal faces of the innocent behind Auschwitz fences;

the horror that such could happen in our own time.


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