DERELICT | SPOKEN WORD | FOR REFUGEES

‘Derelict’, a spoken word poem dedicated to those seeking refuge, including those drowned and missing last week near Greece.
The boat carrying up to 750 people capsized, leaving at least 80 dead and up to 500 missing, including women and children, with authorities not providing adequate support with a deafening lack of empathy.
Derelict.
My homes are now derelict
My desires are terrorists
I am a figment of a throne
My bones are what settles it
I’m an Olympic gold medalist
A nuclear physicist
I can break the mind of a therapist,
Crush it and level it
A dingy with no soul in it
But I’m no sentimentalist
I came with a wish list
Equipped to conquer it
Not White enough for her shores
Rwanda becomes of it
No mercy for my melanin
Mary Magdaline bare witness to it
A crucifixion for false Gods
And there’s only One but they won’t hear it
The lifeboat is out of reach
No Eastern conflict would hear of it
The dingy has lost control
And we so desperately peddle it
But the waves are out of control
And as we grab the paddle it
Succumbs to the channel
If I had energy I’d channel it
But the journey has been too long
And an ending would end it
We call the coast guard
But it’s his coast, he’s just guarding it
Now all we have is God
But even God is saying “this is it”
My child in my arms
What a life, he never lived in it
He never grew to love or
Witness peace let alone hear of it
The sea swallows us whole
And the ocean water I swallow it
The taste of salt is bitter
A final test and I’ve failed it
Our sin our desire
To survive and that was it
There’s no mercy left in this world
The only mercy is that we’ve left it.
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