{"id":26056527,"date":"2020-06-20T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T09:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/world-refugee-day-2020\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T04:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T02:27:21","slug":"world-refugee-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/world-refugee-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day 2020 &#8211; Ary&#8217;s poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"601\" src=\"http:\/\/metadrasi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/metadrasi_world_refugee_day_2020.jpg\" alt=\"Metadrasi -\" class=\"wp-image-17167\" title=\"Metadrasi -\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Many times people ask us: How is the situation for unaccompanied children in Moria and other hotspots, on the streets of Athens where they are homeless? How do they live? How do they feel?<br><br>Today, on World Refugee Day, an unaccompanied child answers these questions: We share with you the poem written by 16-year-old Ary from the hotspot of Samos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-very-dark-gray-background-color has-very-dark-gray-color is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I have more memory of u asking me how I am than of my dad telling me good morning<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I only feel sad when I have to breathe<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I<em> am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>When I am on the street people run away from me, they do that \u2019cause I am a Black Man, African or Refugee?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I look at normal people walking on the streets and I like pretending that I am one of them, that I have friends and that at the end of the day I go home and I get to be with my family<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>Give me a chance<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>One day I had a nightmare and guess who was I?<br>I was a Black Man, African and Refugee<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I don\u2019t have big dreams, but I do have dreams<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>Is not that bad, \u201cyes I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to have a family, what it feels like sleeping on a bed that is just mine, or not being sick for two weeks straight\u201d, but at least I am still alive<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I am afraid of being happy \u2019cause I am not used to it<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If someone asks you how disliked someone can be<br>Tell him that \u201cI am a Black Man, African and Refugee\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>Is not fair.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I know is not your fault<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>The other day I felt so much pain I started to smile<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I am just a scared kid screaming for help, with my mouth shut<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>Once I had a mom<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>I am a Black Man, African and Refugee<br>I miss my mom<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We share with you the poem written by 16-year-old Ary from the hotspot&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":389363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-26056527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26056527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26056527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26056527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26056527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26056527"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metadrasi.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=26056527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}