From Routes, a poem by Routes’ Head of Programmes Wieke Vink:
Ceasefire
What do we have but our rituals
To anchor us in time and place
To give space to the unspoken
And gestures to community
What do we have but our bodies
To feel more than could be held in one place
To witness what is being broken
To gesture towards all that could be
What do we have but all we got
To hold onto our mourning
To bring together our worries and yearning
To say words we don’t yet know how to speak
And so when human rights come out into the light
When we are asked to think wiser
Hold our politics stronger, and lighter
I hold onto our rituals a little tighter
Hold community a little higher
And ask us all for a ceasefire
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