I came with stars inside my chest,
It's a dream stitched tight to Sunday best.
But this green land, cold and grim,
I swallowed my hope on a border whim.
They smiled with laws like sharpened spears,
Their silence thundered in my ears.
Paper walls rose tall and steep—
My prayers got lost in places deep.
They asked for proof, for funds, for name,
A birthright wrapped in legal flame.
But who can weigh a soul displaced?
Who taxes breath? Who counts disgrace?
The Queen’s English spat me out,
My tongue a ghost, my voice in drought.
In markets, courts, and hiring halls,
My words collapsed against their walls.
I slept beneath the city’s bones,
On benches carved from migrant moans.
No roof, no right, no guiding hand—
Just broken dreams and shifting sand.
They watched me starve with measured eyes,
A “foreigner” beneath grey skies.
The landlords turned, the bosses sneered,
And every street grew sharp with fear.
Disgraced in silence, hurt in queues,
Their law books are laced with bitter truths.
Each rule, a blade to make me small,
Each form, a gate, a hidden wall.
But I have seen what eyes can’t bear—
The Home Office cold, without a care.
They shred the rights they claim to keep,
While justice lies in haunted sleep.
I’ve felt the fists of white disdain,
The burn of names, the migrant shame.
The nation’s tongue drips honeyed bile,
And paints its chains with a noble style.
Yet in the cracks, where tears have dried,
A whisper calls I never died.
For though the night has stained my soul,
My God remains, unmarked, whole.
He held me close when none would see,
When beds were stones and meals were plea.
Though systems broke me, stripped me bare,
His hand, unseen, still touched me there.
So hear me now, O land of kings,
Your glitter blinds, your church bells sting.
Beneath your gold, a Faultline weeps,
Where broken migrants sow their grief.
And still—we rise, though hearts are torn,
We sing in the dusk, we dare the dawn.
With nothing left but breath and flame,
We plead, we fight, we speak His name.
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