Migrants Poem by Francis Duggan

For one reason or for the other their Homelands they have chosen to leave
From different Nations and cultures and on different Gods they believe
They bring with them their foods and their cultures they bring with them their music and song
And yet to the one human family all people as one do belong
To us they may look very different but to them we look different too
Yet when you look at it everyone is different and different dreams we pursue
Most of us have this need to be successful and most of us driven by greed
We do crave the respect of others respect is a thing we do need
Some of them leave their Homelands for adventure and some of them are refugees
They flee from the warlords and hunger on leaky boats across the seas
By circumstance of birth we are destined to be what we turn out to be
We follow the course of our destiny though some with that may not agree
For one reason or for the other their Land of birth they choose to leave
And they bring with them their different cultures and on different Gods they believe.