sea peoples

sea peoples

fiction
edward w pritchard

A few of us here in our town have become concerned about the plight of the children of these refugees or is it immigrants looking to enter Europe hoping for better opportunities. Some of these unfortunates walk and some travel by sea to places unknown. Many even bring their children along.

With no belongings and little money the immigrant children of the sea peoples suffer terribly.

Wanting to help and not knowing what to do we of our modest town here in Ohio have been sending metal clothes hangers to Italy, Greece and Gibraltar, the Texas border and other places to give to the children of the sea peoples. The clothes hangers are skillfully folded into exquisite origami animal figurines and birds by the starving dejected children of the sea peoples.

It's a joy to behold the slipping smiles on the faces of the big eyed desperate children when they play with the origami hanger figures often twisted into the national bird of the Homeland they have left behind to risk dangerous and unwelcome journeys to find another place to call Home, often behind high barb wire fenced compounds between the borders of European or American Countries.

If the sorrowful Children could speak a language we understood it's surely true that they would thank us for our compassion.