New Poem from Wilma Seville

 

Deported                                                                        

Fifteen years of waiting, living in suspense 

my freedom about to be dashed

the day has arrived – the day I dread

Forced to leave the only home I know

Pounding at the front door vibrates in my head

echoes in my ears, jerks me awake – afraid!

In her sleep, Maadar cries out in Farsi

The banging continues, it will not stop

I cling to my pillow as  a life raft

I am in the sea, surrounded by sharks.

I force my legs to move - to answer the door

Immigration barges in, Maadar awakes,

shrieks and cowers -  terrified –  memories vivid

of Evin Prison in Tehran - torture

Stern faces gaze at us, show no mercy

here to escort us to the plane

shipped back to a country I don’t know

my education in English – not equipped for life

in a country with foreign ways and  tongue.

©WilmaSeville2013

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