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More in MosquitoBytes Volume 01: Nigrescent Vermillion - 2005

Home in Baxter?

Nozzer, for the idea. He thought I should write something about the refugee Detention Centres in Australia, this was not what he expected but it seemed appropriate. I wrote this in support of the legitimate asylum seekers, the others should be put back on their rickety boats and left for the sharks - far more economical.

I fled from the brutality
I fled from the oppression
I fled to freedom

Miles I journeyed, thousands of them
Praying to Allah that I would survive
My wife & children left behind
I am alone

Alone at a place called Baxter
A place of barbed wire and tall fences
Bereft of compassion,
This place is killing me

I fret each day
How is my wife
My 3 lovely children

I wait and hope each day
No answer comes
No message of my family
No answer to my pleas

3 years I've been here
Now war in my homeland
Are they alive?
Will I see them again?

Ahmed was carried away this morning
His despair knew no bounds
9 months he was here
No answer

I wonder how I've lasted
How do I survive this place
Without recourse to aide
Without hope?

I think of my family
Of what we've missed
A love to cherish
That last long kiss

She trusted me,
Yet here I am
A nobody
In a foreign land...

© 2005, Mosquitobyte

Comments

Leanne - on Dec. 8 2007
I actually find it hard to detach myself from such an emotive issue, I'm sure folks from other countries will have less difficulty.  I do support mandatory detention, purely because I think we've been forced into it by all the non-genuine refugees creating massive bureaucratic headaches -- not to mention the security risk, which is blown out of proportion by the ridiculously alarmist media but is nonetheless very real.  I also do have to say, the three meals a day with a guaranteed safe bed at Baxter still has to be better than sitting in a refugee camp somewhere in the Middle East.  The bleeding heart civil libertarians, who've never known anything but their comfy chairs and silk dressing gowns, might do well to remember that freedom is worth waiting for, and worth fighting for -- it's not a given.
Mosquitobyte - on Dec. 8 2007
*applauds* Well said.
Leanne - on Dec. 9 2007
Just a thought... if you want to make this stronger, focus on those numbers. 
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