I used this poem ‘Refugees' in a sermon recently at Church
I was talking about how God turns our world upside down. Everything. Our thinking. And how we respond to problems. if only we’ll let him
This poem fitted perfectly The starkness and hopelessness of the first reading
And then you read it again. but this time upside down - from bottom to top …….
And you learn the world can be looked at another way
REFUGEES
They have no need of our help
So do not tell me
These haggard faces could belong to you or me
Should life have dealt a different hand
We need to see them for who they really are
Chancers and scroungers
Layabouts and loungers
With bombs up their sleeves
Cut-throats and thieves
They are not
Welcome here
We should make them
Go back to where they came from
They cannot
Share our food
Share our homes
Share our countries
Instead let us
Build a wall to keep them out
It is not okay to say
These are people just like us
A place should only belong to those who are born there
Do not be so stupid to think that
The world can be looked at another way
(now read from bottom to top)
https://brianbilston.com/2016/03/23/refugees/
Rev Phil Simpson, member of the Christian faith
Date: Monday 26th June 2023
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