Written piece
My Island
Sheena Hussain
United Kingdom
About this piece
My Island is about United Kingdom, its people welcoming immigrants/asylum seekers at their shores. An Island with deep history of people coming and settling from other lands. We are far more united & have far more in common than that which divides us, as the late Jo Cox said.
though it’s small,
its people are vast in empathy.
By the shores they stand
and protest, Let them in—
and all that human rights rhetoric. foiled blankets and well-intended
Soon they’ll offer them watery tea, advice layer up it’s brass monkeys here!
compared to where they’ve
docked from. Of course,
dispersal will play its part May need a little protection
like spring wildflower seeds. up North (my neck of the woods)
as we tend to be colder & obtuse.
Sending migrants to Scotland is a death wish,
though kiddies would die to play Before you know it
in that white soft dough. the doors to rooms are loaned unconditionally.
Once, a football pundit joined in,
why ever not?
No man is an island, we share
a 3D web weaved fascia
that holds our moral compass.
And under the mushroom
we hold to the buttercup sun,
we are more in common than
things that divide us. After all,
we’re the same thread in the eye;
Roman, Saxson, Viking & Norman. good, burgeoning wealth,
And now, an assortment of common so much richer. So much alive.