This is an online collection of writings from people seeking Asylum in Australia who are currently in detention; some have been there for many years. It has been put together by Janet Galbraith and deserves to be shared widely if you can take a moment to check it out. Just keep clicking on previous post at the end of the first main page to get to the poems and writings (or keep scrolling down if you click on the blue link). Heres a sample: I WILL RISE (after Maya Angelou) You now lock me in detention and damage my hopes but it’s like dust and one day I will rise. You may avoid my sadness and send me to Manus but one day I will rise. You may hide the reality and break my heart but one day I will rise. You may send me to somewhere else. I am female of under age who needs assistance from you. Why cant you help me? You may send me to other countries and shoot me with your words. but one day I will rise. You may punish me by saying lies but one day I will rise. You may kill me with your hateful action but its like air and one day I will rise You may never care about my awful past and enjoy my tears but one day I will rise. I may have bad memories rooted in pain but one day I will rise. I may have left fear life full of horror but one day I will rise. Does my mind upset you so full of thoughts? I am an asylum seeker who seeks freedom and don’t have anywhere else to go. Does it come as a surprise to you that what ever you have done to me I will forgive you? Where ever you send me as long as i see the sun rise and the moon come up I will rise. H.A (Christmas Island Detention)
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 01:56:37 +0000
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