Amir Darwish
Immigrants

Often on TV screens
Proud eagles
With desert colour eyes
Africa sits in them.

Syrian mother
At the Home Office
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon, London
Baby on lap
Rock
Rock
Rock
And sing:
‘go to sleep baby tomorrow is sunshine’.

Middle age Man
In Calais
Wakes to whisper,
’It’s day 100 now, why do I count?’

Sardine corpses in the Mediterranean
belly that never full.

Females in political labs,
Constantly get a nudge by needle eyes

Figures
Policy shapers
Money eaters
Wrongdoers
Sinners
Immigrants fit everywhere
For wrong reasons.