
Jessica Norman
songs from Lesvos
Updated: Mar 11, 2021
In a camp by an olive grove
You sit with guitars
Under canvas and stars
At the place where hope and pain meet
Where men,
Who may not be whole again,
Sing to the wind
of what they’ve lost.
Your music
Surreptitiously filmed
sends you
Half-way across the world in a blink
Your passport
Into safe, warm rooms
You cannot imagine
Doors locked. Window shuttered.
To an audience who
Will turn away and forget
And yet
You’re there still
Singing to the wind.
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