Turning away
Refugees to humanity
Resilience and hope
Broken promises becomes
Another shade of grey
Soulless birds sing
Deathly indifference
Another kind of torture
No visible scars
Or proof of the infliction
As compassion is
Left on barbed wire
And a refugee was shot at the Bulgarian border.
Intolerance disguised in so many pleasing forms… shades of grey…
There were so many shade of grey in this story, like past one, to the inhumane treatment of migrants and refugees through out history. George Szirtes, a Hungarian poet, charted these stories from the 1956 revolution onwards… his work never fails to move me.