28th Oct 2019
Hello friends. It is Monday and the start of a new week. The news these last few days of the death of thirty nine people found in a refrigerated truck has really made people think.
Unfortunately, it's happening all the time . One wonders where they might have ended up . In the slave trade maybe? Yes, it goes on. The money they borrow to get themselves here, they then have to pay back, which they are rarely able to do.
I can't say I know what the answer is but I would like to think that they would be treated with dignity and respect as we all deserve being everyone of us part of the human race.
Anyway, today is Day 28 of the ongoing challenge, OctPoWriMo 2019.
Only three more posts for this.
I will make it.
I will make it.
I will make it.
From Broken Places
Why risk their lives to get here?
Last distressed words, by text,
"My trip to a foreign land has failed"
"I am dying, I can't breathe!"
"I am suffocating!"
Dead. God be with them.
A pregnant wife and son left behind,
Now grieve.
Many families innocent victims.
Paid to smugglers by one family,
Thirty thousand pounds,
Borrowed with hope in a future,
Turned into nightmare.
Money laundering.
They escape from broken places,
Hide in trucks, holding onto dreams
Of a better life, of working,
Of sending money back home.
Willing to take the chance.
A mass fatality - without respect
Without dignity,
Trafficking of people
How many more will die by
drowning at sea or in refrigerated trucks?
How many more...
Beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you.
DeleteTragic reality. These poor people are desperate for a better life and take dangerous risks. So many people in this world are still oppressed.Very very sad.
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DeleteIt is such a sad reality of life! Beautifully expressed.
ReplyDeleteIt is . Thank you
DeleteSo much pain, you expressed it beautifully. May they rest in peace.
ReplyDeleteYes, so much pain. And it carries on now for those families left to grieve. So sad.
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