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"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.

Helpless Refugees

By Akoon Deng, Nairobi, Kenya

They have no need of our help so do not tell me

These haggard faces could belong to you or me

Should life have dealt a different hands

We need to see them for who they really are

Chancers and scroungers

Layabouts and loungers

With insecurity up their hands

Cutthroats and thieves

They are not

Welcome here

We should make them

Go back to where they came from

They cannot

Share our food

Share our homes

Share our countries

Instead let us

Restrict a border to keep them away

It is not okay to say

These are people who destroy their country

A place should only belong to those are born there

Do not be so doltish to think that

We need the egalitarian in our country

We are all tire of being a refugees all the time.

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