Overloaded Dinghies Poem by John Sensele

Rows of strife and grief grow rife when understanding flies away
Leaving families and their homilies in the lurch
Bereft of clear strategies to rebuild bridges that sway
Wandering thoughts, multiplying noughts back to church
Not to condemn souls or point accusing fingers at John
Joe, Josephine, Joyce, Job, Jonathan or Lyse Doucet
But to reconcile pedophiles and philosophers and join
In efforts to promote peace, demote strife and cancel debt
Developing countries owe to the donor community whose generosity
Has plummeted to its lowest ebb as the European Union
Grapples with Brexit, terrorism and refugees' curiosity
To sample decent life and creature comforts in the communion
Of nations that once dared to care for refugees and migrants
Whose voyage on overloaded dinghies paints images of vagrants.