Refugee by The Crossing

Dochas - Hope by The Crossing

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Refugee
by The Crossing

Album: Dochas - Hope

A letter yellowed by the years
Slips from her weathered hand
To the weary trail of tears
We walk today.
She stops to rest and gathers up
The faded memories
Of family and friends
She'll no more see.

Tracing words that speak with fire
Of passion and of joy,
With dusty fingers creased
By wind and toil,
She gently presses to her lips
This chapter of her life
As she walks the last time
On her homeland's soil.

We walk along together
Towards a barren place,
Past streams and bodies,
fields and empty towns.
Our prayers wing slow and silent
Into the cloudless air;
Her tired plea is for peace again.

At times we cannot understand
The hear of tyranny
That ravages our homes
And fragile dreams.
The cry for mercy whispers
From a land of refugees,
And from the woman who is
Walking next to me.

We reach the distant borderland
On a dark and dreamless night;
She goes her unknown way
As I go mine.
I hope she'll find that peace
Beyond the reaches of our minds
While she hopes that I won't
Forget this time.