We all will seek asylum
at some stage in our life
some from the travails of every day
some from war and civil strife .
We are all asylum seekers.
We are all refugees.
Some of us may not know it
as we placate and please.
Some think we have made it.
Some just strut and tease.
Some hope for liberation,
some pray for workhouse stew.
Some rely on others
to help build this world anew.
We all will seek asylum
at some stage in our life
some from the travails of every day
some from war and civil strife .
It’s time to get to know the other
stranger, father, child or lover,
to live in peace with one another
and acknowledge the earth is our mother.
First published in the Bayside Bugle August 2005, p.7.
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