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“Home”

Author: Warsan Shire


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no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well

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your neighbors running faster than you
breath bloody in their throats
the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory
is holding a gun bigger than his body
you only leave home
when home won’t let you stay.

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no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilets
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.

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It’s amazing how much this text speaks to us! Let’s take a moment to read this text again with the principles of Iyengar Yoga in mind. We know to look for precision, alignment, sequencing, timing and the use of props to help us build our understanding. Could the act of tearing up the passport in the airport be seen as a physical gesture that has been precisionally, and even beautifully, sequenced to show the urgency, the despair, and the commitment to a new course of life? Can we use the use of props and take a deeper look into the implications that the burning blade in the neck carries? And how does the timing of the words help to bring the common theme of exile and dislocation to the forefront? Read the text again with these three points in mind and see if your perspective is changed. It’s sure to be an enlightening experience!

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you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied

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no one chooses refugee camps
or strip searches where your
body is left aching
or prison,
because prison is safer
than a city of fire
and one prison guard
in the night
is better than a truckload
of men who look like your father
no one could take it
no one could stomach it
no one skin would be tough enough

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the
go home blacks
refugees
dirty immigrants
asylum seekers
sucking our country dry
niggers with their hands out
they smell strange
savage
messed up their country and now they want
to mess ours up
how do the words
the dirty looks
roll off your backs
maybe because the blow is softer
than a limb torn off

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or the words are more tender
than fourteen men between
your legs
or the insults are easier
to swallow
than rubble
than bone
than your child body
in pieces.
i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
drown
save
be hunger
beg
forget pride
your survival is more important

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no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
saying-
leave,
run away from me now
i dont know what i’ve become
but i know that anywhere
is safer than here

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DMU Timestamp: September 19, 2015 12:10

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