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| Yolande Mabika member of the first Team Refugees displaying the Refugee Olympic Team flag |
Sometimes I wish I was a refugee
I wish I can dip my toe in strange
soil,
Claim the skies and build a world
without boundaries.
In a strange land to raise redemption’s
song
Hauled on the buzz of people who’ve
lost everything
Yet invested with the greatest of gifts,
I’ll rise
Above the fears and doubts and
corruption of beauty.
And I’d relish the right of giving
one lifetime twice.
My very own second shot at making first
impression,
I’ll devastate captivity and make an
art of destruction.
I’ve waded a hundred rivers of hurt,
fears and blood but
The yet uncharted rivers will carve pinions
for my cross.
Raison d'être tossed in war opens up to
freedom’s porch
I could almost engage it cause it’s
breaking with the dawn.
All the virtues I’d have been busting
loose in a fresh me.
Sometimes I wish I was a refugee.
Akpan
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