Posted in: 2017, allegory, Audio (English), fable, poem, videodigt

on the top of things

on the top of things

there is a hole a hole

is a good thing said

the rabbit a rabbit is

a good thing said the

singer the singer is a

good thing said the

nation the nation is

a good thing? asked

the people is it?

what is good? Good

is good said the rabbit

said the singer said the

people but

what about me? said

the nation a hole

is a good thing said

the hole but what

about me said the nation

come into me

said the hole I have space

but I am the nation

said the nation

I have space for all said

the hole come into me

rabbit come into me singer

come into me people I have

space will I find my way back

said the rabbit no said the hole

and I said the singer will

I sing again under the sun

no said the hole but I have

space and me said the people

will we live again as one

no said the hole but I

have space come into me

I will come said the nation

come then said the hole

come into blackness I have

space and the nation did and got lost

 

on the top of things

are a hole of darkness a rabbit on the move

a singer in light and

a people as one

but the nation

the nation is gone

 

We participated in a a writing workshop for male refugees, and were tasked with writing a text containing four individually given words. The words for this text were  Rabbit, Afghanistan, Get Lost and Singer. Later Afghanistan was replaced with Nation, to create a broader international application. But following the situation in Afghanistan since the American withdrawal in 2021, the original bacame relevant so it now exists in both versions.

 

[dansk] [English w Afghanistan]

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