Notes from the Heart
~A Sonnet
~An Ode to Immigration
Tamara Farner-Swerline
walking the banks of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the Tigress I cradled a civilization in my arms and nurtured them at my breast
I left my home and kinsfolk to settle new lands that teamed with opportunity, and riches, and welcome and when finding none became enslaved
I was an exile and sojourner in a foreign land all the while hungering for truth, and for justice, and for nourishment, and for a simple cup of water…
in the heat of the noonday sun, I lay beneath a towering saguaro and the manzanita tree in a silent desert wash while the wild coyote demands a pound of my flesh
merciful God… do you see what is happening to these your people?
“Holy Mary, Mother of God,this bread made of wheat gleaned from the floor of a barren field, crushed and ground by hardship, moistened with tears of affliction baked in an oven of adversity until its time had come to pass,
pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death. Amen.”[2]
offered now to you
“take and eat, for this is my body that was broken for you… “[3]this cup offered to appease your thirst is wine made bitter with tears of despair and the silent prayers of the widow, and the orphan, and the displaced stranger
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