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