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Your story. Our story.

Clik The Mouse

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Yours is filled with fear, atrocities, displacement.
Memories that are burned with terror, entwined
With the rotting flesh left behind.

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 Ours is one of comfort and plenty.
Of decency and democracy, sanctuary and frivolity
A mecca, for pursuants of equality.

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 Hard to imagine a common thread.
But football has squeezed itself
through the eye of a needle.

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 The Unity Cup is like a thimble.
A welcome mechanism to facilitate
integration, to spread the word

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 With a shared joy, to mix, to exchange
To farm the minds
To sow together

© Clik the mouse, 13th July 2005

Notes

For the Unity Cup Festival

One of my favourite contributors to the site, Ian Beesley, is involved with an initiative for integrating refugees and asylum seekers, called The Unity Cup, which takes place this weekend, July 16th and July 17th at Roundhay School in Leeds.

This is a festival of fun events and creative activities organised around a football tournament. Teams of asylum seekers and other displaced people will come from around the UK to compete for the Unity Cup.

Considering the news (relating to the London bombings of 7/7) emerging yesterday and today, ironically from the Leeds area,
we need Unity more than ever.

Quote from Adrian Jones, Co-ordinator, Your Story FC (last years winning team) :
“The Unity Cup Festival represents exactly what Your Story FC aims to achieve; enabling diverse teams to interact and share common experiences. Football can reach out to all communities – it crosses all language and cultural barriers.”

The Unity Cup Festival is a partnership project between Kick It Out & Heads Together Productions.
It receives financial support from, among others – the PFA.

This poem inspired after reading the details available at :
http://www.elfm.co.uk/ then click on the link that says “DOWNLOAD THE INFORMATION HERE”

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/your-story-our-story/