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PROPOSAL: National Monument for the Welcomers of the Persecuted Other - Arnhem, the Netherlands

Light Mosaic for the city of Arnhem, the Netherlands, using a popular local guerilla poetry initiative to address and attempt to cool down the burning issue of refugee migration. 

 

The poem in Dutch -  by us as well - reads:

are you fleeing 

from the desert or from the flood

from violence or from boredom
from too many people or loneliness

did you have to leave, more than you wanted to come here
en can you not understand the words
in which you are being told
what to do / where to go / and at what time 

do you look back
and see nothing
but destruction, emptiness,
one big black hole

have you forgotten what it is
to be able to make your own voice heard
rather than only being the subject
of other people’s debates

then, come here, to these shores
welcome to the city where I was born 

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