Under the guidance, support and mentoring of the CLC team and with the help of its network, Nikolaos Vichos (Dartmouth ’23) composed the poem “REFUGEES” which belongs to poetry anthology “LOST GROUNDS” from laureate poetess Despina Kontaxis.
“REFUGEES”
Death carriers the dreams
hope they bury.
Life a rake
the ditches of choices
longly shapes.
The seeds of being a refugee
is planted
each one in a different spot.
Families are separated.
The memories old photographs
that fade.
Children that grow
without parents
without comfort.
Forced being refugees
that is settled
as a sigh.
The sorrow
suffocating tobacco
that emerges.
Liberation to tomorrow
some children’s grin,
before it gets to it
the burial of hope.
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