Smile Of A Thousand Journeys

Thanks to a UNHCR scholarship, these 23 young
Sudanese refugees are now ready to teach History,
Geography and Arabic at secondary level.
Courtesy: @UNHCR (Facebook)

Those smiles

Will float you 1,000 miles

Up the Blue Nile

It's reward

For staying on the grind

After you've run and fought

The good fight

Championed a good cause

By flaunting your vibes

Forced to flee only escaping

By the skin of your teeth.

But those smiles

Are a mile wide

Of the reality

Of their ordeal,

How much they've been thru

And now their true

Color shines thru

From lost to teaching school

To raising an educated troop

That will get in the good fight

The fight

For refugee rights,

To leave no one behind,

And to be a light

That blurs the lies.

Akpan