There has never been a more important time to address issues of refugees, alienation and racism. With feelings running high in many countries of the world – especially the UK – thi
s is an important subject.
Read the Poem Below called Citizens of the World by Dave Calder
when you are very small
maybe not quite born
your parents move
for some reason you may never understand they move
from their own town
from their own land
and you grow up in a place
that is never quite your home
and all your childhood people
with a smile or a fist say
you’re not from here are you
and part of you says fiercely yes I am
and part of you feels no I’m not
I belong where my parents belonged
but when you go to their town, their country
people there also say
you’re not from here are you
and part of you says no I’m not
and part of you feels fiercely yes I am
and so you grow up both and neither
and belong everywhere and nowhere much the same
both stronger and weaker for the lack of ground
able to fly but not to rest
and all over the world, though you feel alone
are millions like you, like a great flock of swallows
soaring or faling exhausted, wings beating the rhythem
of the wind that laughs at fences or frontiers,
whose home is itself, and the whole world it moves over.
Chose and answer 2 of these questions:
- What is the poem about?
- Who are these people?
- How does this make you feel? Why?
- Why do people have to leave one country and go to another?
- What does the word ‘home’ mean to them? Esxplain
