Tuesday, 15 September 2015

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.
~ Warsan Shire ~

Tens of thousands of people are fleeing civil war and unrest to find new homes in Europe —sometimes with tragic consequences. The U.N. estimates that more people have been displaced than at any time since World War II. 

Article:
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/08/the-global-refugee-crisis/402718/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2015/sep/15/refugee-crisis-hungary-launches-border-crackdown-live-updates

#history   #refugeecrisis   #humanity  
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPsAR9Sx-JQ

7 comments:

  1. “They come!”

    “No, fear not – those are sounds

    Of spring itself.
    She’s coming soon.

    Quickly, your lips!”

    “They break the door!”

    “No, river ice is breaking…”

    Wild grasses rustle over Babi Yar,

    The trees look sternly, as if passing judgement.

    Here, silently, all screams, and, hat in hand,
    
I feel my hair changing shade to gray.

    And I myself, like one long soundless scream

    Above the thousands of thousands interred,

    I’m every old man executed here,

    As I am every child murdered here.



    From BABI YAR
    By Yevgeni Yevtushenko

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  2. Corina Marinescu
    I first read  Babi Yar in the Holocaust museum in DC.. I stood silent, stunned, and feeling the pain from so many, from so many years ago I wept.

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  3. If we can't handle it, I don't know, who can...

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  4. So, you are also getting the 'Hungarian Wall' .. they are going to shoot on children?

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  5. I don't see it getting better any time soon

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  6. Sam Collett
    Sadly Sam, I concur, and I fear that we have much to go through before this turns around.

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