Saturday, December 04, 2021

Poem of the week: Homesick by Hugo Williams

 

Where  are these young and innocent

lost perhaps from their home towns,

Or hired for labor, escaping from servile

authoritative  handcuffs, landed here

with wounds or cuts or injuries,

could be in search of jobs in this hospital

where I am lying sick, similar to their predicament.

So much in their faces, I can read 

faces  are maps , depicting sad irony,

plights or missing their parental affection;

 now they tend  to care for me,  spirit

of dedication and  service, unquestioned;

 my nurses, these lost souls, me  longing

for change to go back to my village,

all sail in the same boat, going back

 to our villages ,our places of  roots.

 

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