Going To Promise Land Poem by Tony Adah

They told us to go
To the promise land
Where they'll give us warm bath
We struggled to get the visas
They gave with many conditions
We moved without knowing where
We were going.

Some of us sea tossed
And dead on the surfs
We never woke to the reality
Of our dreams
Others reached out there
And everything was cold
The walls of those houses
Like igloos were ice
Bed covers were snow
We breathed a fog of wintery air.

See what we have done
To struggle and abandon our warmth
Out there we worked and ate
And paid our bills
Our pay checks empty as a void.
They told us that
That's the only place that
The sun shines,
We alighted and got lost
In snow scape where the only thing
We heard about was the noise
Of the cold
We came back with the luggage of cold
In our hearts and memories thawed
Only by our own very clime
Warm and kind.