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A Voice from the Border
"A woman’s voice tells me your family your kids and your mother can come up this wall to see you, but you can’t cross over."
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to this Commentary!
By Jorge Nunez
I stand on an unknown shore,
It seems as I wash upon it.
My mind is blurred, I really don’t recall what happened.
Maybe a shipwreck, where I might have fell overboard,
I stand here on this strange shore.
It seems out of this world that a huge wall would be
Running as far as my eyes could see onto the land
And straight into the ocean water.
It’s a strange place, and for a second I think I’m no longer on earth.
A woman’s voice tells me your family your kids
And your mother
Can come up to this wall to see you,
But you can’t cross over.
My thoughts are confused,
My heart is pounding, I suggest to this woman
I just want to step on this side for a second.
She tells me I can’t
They’ll call you an alien.
It feels like I’m dreaming,
I sit on the sand, my head hanging I look up and stare into the sunset
And try to remember how I got on this side of the wall
On to this strange soil.
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