Day 220 - ​Border Control

 BORDER CONTROL

The Syrian family that drowned
in the English Channel,
preoccupies my mind.
 
Seeking a better life,
young lives were lost
in a world of borders.
 
Adrift in freezing water,
a family fought, and lost,
their desperate scramble.
 
This is the ultimate price
that others pay for our
inability to help.
 
We create boundaries
not just by country,
but in our personal world.
 
We can look at the TV
and think how bad this is,
​safe within our borders.

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​PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT EXERCISE. ​
1.    Kurdish-Iranian Rasoul Iran-Nejad, 35, Shiva Mohammad Panahi, 35,   Anita, nine, and Armin, six, and    fifteen-month-old Artin all died.    The family is believed to be from the city of Sardasht in western Iran, close to the border with Iraq.   Let  us think of them now.

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