Displacement.

                                              Thank you.

              You helped me remember.

                     So many peoples

                                  forced from lands

         they once called home.

I know their stories are not the same.

         Unique experiences, not the same.

               Yet threads of displacement

                     run through many histories.

                               These threads

                    weave together

                      distinct communities,

           Connections woven from pain,

                                           from loss.






               It was not always like this.


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        I am Tapestry.

                        I remember faces,

                                        hopes,

                                 voices,

            like colorful threads.

                   I remember two . . .
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