The Refugee Poem by Francis Duggan

For freedom from persecution he came to this country a human
soul and his heart is not of stone
But the Government has not made him feel welcome and he feels isolated and alone
For entering this Land without a passport he's in a jail whilst his case is for review
And he has been condemned to further suffering despite what he has already been through.

Has he not suffered far too much already his Country's Government soldiers murdered his children and his wife?
And forced him to become a freedom fighter by destroying what mattered most to him in life
He fought against the forces of oppression against those who suppress justice and liberty
The reason he is not in his own Country and the reason he is now a refugee

They honour men who fought and died in battles against foreign foes and in a foreign Land
But the foreigner who fights for human rights against the oppressors they do not want and that I don't understand
He is a fellow they try to discredit though a lie detector test he did not fail
Here is a man they should applaud and honour instead they have him languishing in jail.

Here is a man who fought against the oppressors and here is a man whose wife and family
Were mudered by the so called Government soldiers and from his Homeland he was forced to flee
And here is a man who should be decorated instead behind high prison walls he wait
For the Government for to grant him residency status or else to deport him which would seal his fate.