The Emigree

• 'There was once a country ... '
• 'My memory of it is sunlight clear'
• 'It may be at war it may be sick with tyrants'
• 'But I am branded by an impression of sunlight'
• 'It tastes of sunlight'
• 'As evidence of sunlight'
• 'They accuse me of absence'
• 'They accuse me of being dark in their free city'
• 'They mutter death'
• 'My city takes me dancing through the city of walls'