Explaining, in short verses, the unthinkable choices refugees must take, Shire writes: “no one puts their children in a boat / unless the water is safer than the land. You only run for the border / when you see the whole city / running as well.” This evocative stanza from poet Warsan Shire’s Home hit a nerve online recently as the European public finally woke up to the reality of the refugee crisis. “N o one leaves home unless / home is the mouth of a shark. Refugees shout in silence, muttering words amongst themselves. Shires similarly titled poem Home, unfortunately too relevant for this moment, contains the much quoted line, No one leaves home unless / home is the mouth. The hardest part of pain is living with it for a lifetime. who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory is holding a gun bigger than his body, You only leave home. “Is there a border where humanity will look at us and discover that we are human beings?” They ask. than you, the boy you went to school with. Going through the human folds of their souls battling fears, emotions, mourning the lives they saw lost. 24 Likes, TikTok video from Umar Chaudhary (moha.chaudhary): 'No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark - Warsan Shire warsanshire immigration poverty hunger incidents sad solidarity pakistan people foryoupage fyp oslo norway'. Only to be labeled refugees and sent back. This quote by Warsan Shire is a powerful reminder of the immense challenges and risks that many. They crossed seas with hope to step on land. Home by Warsan Shireno one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark you only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well your. No one leaves home, unless home is the mouth of a shark. They ask if there is a final passage where they would build a house, a home with an olive tree in the backyard. By exploring Warsan Shires poetry, this study, through the lens of modernity and globalization, examines the concept of home while x-raying locations of the. She was awarded the inaugural Brunel International African Poetry Prize and served as the first Young Poet Laureate of London. She has written two chapbooks, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth and Her Blue Body. When you come to our shores fleeing our bombs, we will do anything and everything to avoid blaming those who should be blamed including politicians, the wars they advocate, and the consumerism we worship." It is this psychology, or psychological deficiency depending on your view, which underpins the origin of the refugee crisis, and also which now, rather than seeking to diagnose it, will do anything to explain away what is happening-except of course look at the actual cause.Their minds still pressing against the public latrines’ walls of a refugee camp. Warsan Shire is a Somali British writer and poet born in Nairobi and raised in London. In other words, as Europe's thinking goes, "It's not enough that we used to occupy and colonize you, you clearly remain incapable of governing yourselves, and so therefore, it is our job to come and do it for you, and to democratize you in the form of bombs and McDonalds. The refugee crisis is a direct result of both colonialism and in the modern era, neo-colonialism, the more sophisticated incarnation of modern capitalism, implementing its own barbarism under the perverse justification of 'humanitarian' intervention. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here.
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