God*s Children Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

The Roma

I see them in my mind's eyes
walking through the landscape walking forever
their horses, children, dogs and women in black
a slow wander through the world and to the next
unstoppable they are from planet to planet
peopling the universe.
Often misunderstood and murdered for being
different from us, but it is not possible because
they are God's children.
They are us we are the children but have yet to
discover we are the sacred, the Roma
we despise, we hate what we have become.