Letters from Home-away
Someone else's momma says
My baby's coming home today
He left to fight someone else's war
Is it mine?
I sit and wait.
Someone else's sister says
I thought of you today
We learned of war, so far away
Was this the one for me?
I sit on the floor and wait.
Someone else's daughter says
My love goes out to him today
Gone to fight for people, for whom I pray
Did he come for me?
I sit in my cell and wait.
The door breaks down.
Someone else's husband says
I've been sent yesterday, today
Today to take you away
they fought for me
stand in the light,
watch, and say
What price freedom?
Written at an Amnesty International poetry inservice on April 10, 1999. Please support Amnesty International. Contact them to adopt a detainee and write letters to them. Someday all humanity will be free.
Someone else's momma says
My baby's coming home today
He left to fight someone else's war
Is it mine?
I sit and wait.
Someone else's sister says
I thought of you today
We learned of war, so far away
Was this the one for me?
I sit on the floor and wait.
Someone else's daughter says
My love goes out to him today
Gone to fight for people, for whom I pray
Did he come for me?
I sit in my cell and wait.
The door breaks down.
Someone else's husband says
I've been sent yesterday, today
Today to take you away
they fought for me
stand in the light,
watch, and say
What price freedom?
Written at an Amnesty International poetry inservice on April 10, 1999. Please support Amnesty International. Contact them to adopt a detainee and write letters to them. Someday all humanity will be free.