Refugee who seeks protection abroad, but feels guilty on account of the comfort of a new life in contrast to the harshness of his former life at home.
The beauty of the poem lies in both the symmetry, contrast and the paradox it embodies.
A common hate enriched our love and us:
Escape to parasitic ease disgust;
Discreet expensive hushes stifled us
The plangent wines became acidulous
Rich foods knotted to revolting clots
Of guilt and anger in our queasy guts
Remembering the hungry comfortless.
In draughty angles of the concrete stairs or seared by salt winds under brittle stars
We found a poignant edge to tenderness,
And, sharper than our strain, the passion
Against our landnd's disfigurement and tension;
Hate gouged aut deeper levels for our passion -
A common hate enriched our love and us.
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