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We’re The Dream Diggers – A Poem on World Refugee Day

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We’re The Dream Diggers – A Poem on World Refugee Day
A refugee camp in DR Congo - Photo UNICEF

Refugee camps are pearly dark graves of dreams and we’re the dream diggers

Charles Lipanda MatengaJune 20 is the World Refugee Day, and Charles Lipanda Mahigwe, a young poet and writer, born in DR Congo, raised orphan and spent life in a refugee camp, shares a poem showing Solidarity with Refugees   
Charles Lipanda Matenga, was born and raised orphan at Rwenena Village, Uvira, Sud-Kivu, D. R. Congo in 2005. Charles Lipanda Mahigwe is President of African Youth Artistic Poetry-AYAP.
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Refugee camp – DR Congo, UNICEF

We’re The Dream Diggers

Refugee camps are pearly dark graves of dreams

And we’re the dream diggers

We’ve been frustrated and frosted to dampen our streams

Frittering on frisking us as if we have daggers.  

 

Refugee camps are pearly dark graves of dreams

And we’re the dream seekers

Like tornados, our life is turbulent in turmoil

Coiling and toiling books

With hope to leak the confined barriers

For you’re but oblivious

That travel documents are as blighted as the great wall

 

Refugee camps are full of snags and hitches

We’re the solution influencers

And human rights claimant

There is a need for a gesture of SOLIDARITY

For the resolutions towards our goal.  

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Read: Home is everywhere – Charles Lipanda Matenga

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