I ask for sanctuary.
For everyone who suffers from oppression,
Sanctuary.
For ourselves, our communities, our families, our children,
our friends and neighbors, the animals who share their lives with us,
for all of us who are clandestinely
enslaved,
I ask for sanctuary.
I ask for sanctuary from those
who -- rather than informing and openly consulting
with the people of their countries --
secretly plot byzantine solutions to real terrors.
From incomprehensible, unendurable
psychological torture,
I ask for sanctuary.
Sanctuary
from those who suppress our voices,
from those,
who believing their own voices more important,
have diverted our voices
as the waters of the mountains are stolen by the cities.
From those who believe that life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness
are of no consequence,
I ask for sanctuary.
I define sanctuary as a return to freedom for our homelands.
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