refuse refuge

to those who don’t understand why

refugees board boats

it is not because they do not fear the sea

but because they are already drowning

on land

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i just want to be understood

don’t you understand

don’t you want the same

i don’t know

i don’t understand myself

it is not just

nor what i want

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don’t ever be easy

for to be easy

is to be forever don’t

know then

that to know

is to not know

to love

is to not love to

and to tell

is not always to say

but to breathe because you need to be

for it is all you have known how to do

repeating after others who hold your favourite lines

that read so easily

and hopefully

forever