The Second Exodus
How many more news bulletins
must there be
before we finally awake
And see this second Exodus
Unfolding before our eyes
How many more bodies on the beaches
must there be
before someone stands up
and in the name of humanity
welcomes these weary souls
How many more tears of sorrow
Must there be
Before we wipe their eyes with love
And offer this disparate throng
Safe refuge from the storms
and a place to call home
How many more politicians
Must there be
Before one of them dispels
Their normalcy of rhetoric
And realises that they must not
Consider the cost of saving so many
When lives can still be saved
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