Migration
Complex and profound,
The many forms of migration,
Each resonates and weighs differently....
The migration before famine,
After the harvest,
They are not the same...
The migration from oppression,
And that clandestine flight,
Across guarded frontiers...
The migration of cultures,
And of traditions and tongues?
And identities unsettled so fragile...
The migration from familiarity,
After a community,
Has been dismantled...,
That poignant migration,
Your story is interwoven with mine,
In our collective diaspora...
Whatever the impetus,
Migration leaves its mark,
And the echoes of its journey,
May often reverberate,
In generations that follow...
Migration is also sometimes,
An unspoken odyssey,
That we yearn to hear.
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