Poetry Day - Boat people

Picture from here.

Boat People

Torn from

their moorings

by tempestuous events,

cast upon open seas

hoping for

distant kindness.

Crowded undernourished

ill-equipped

they float

under God's eye

menaced by fears.

They drift

in the

shoreless conscience

of our world.

Their frail light

flickers

in ocean's night.

Bruce L. Smith 1984

I'll Not Pretend