So Many Roads #8

Posto questa lirica nella lingua in cui è nata, ma trovate la traduzione qui

Sincerely, Ruth
di Désirée Dippenaar

My story is not yet over,
I am still here today
in other people who cross your way –
do you see me?

I am the widow who's lost everything.
I am the foreigner – different and strange.
I am the immigrant in a strange new world.
I am the refugee, left homeless suddenly.
I am the mourning one, uncomforted.
I am your neighbour,
waiting for your love,
wanting to be your friend.

Will you, like Boas, welcome me,
invite me, accept me, help me?
Will you meet me with words of love,
of blessing,
and be a neighbour to me?

I want
your land to be my land –
will you help me?

Deésirée Ruth Dippenaar, da Poems, 2012