Gail Sequeira is a talented writer, photographer and cook and this poem is her response to the plight of people seeking refuge.
In Gail’s guise as The Comfort Kitchen she has raised over £2,300 for a women’s Charity in Afghanistan by making and selling meals.
Gail has also taken part of the attempt to surround the centre of Brecon with love.
#TogetherWithRefugees #orangeheart
Song of the Refugee
Imagine
The land of your fathers no longer your home
Each breath filled with terror, no fault of your own
Culture so strange, language a chore,
You’d give anything for a friend to walk though that door
Life and loves left far behind
Perhaps never to meet again in this lifetime
Salt in the wound, spoiled icing on a rotten cake
A sibilant hiss – “go back to where you come from, this space is not yours to take”
The pain of loss…it must be borne
Sustained through empty days and lonely nights, by memories alone.
