For day 22 of the PAD challenge. Poem that "takes a stand."
and here we see the natal
star to guide their way, some
thousands of years elapsed and--
still we wait for him--how
hard for her, alone, in a strange
country, and she so young
in a desert land, so far from
mother, sister, aunt, a number on a form, to
be registered, and still he is
remembered, in thought and word and
deed, though spat upon, reviled,
the star still shines