#PrayForNice
It’s not often we share poetry, having willingly left it behind the second we left handed up English Paper II.
Sometimes however there is a need for more than news reports and political commentary.
This poem by Warsan Shire accurately touches upon the agony that is being felt all over the world as a result of recent terror attacks.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BHmZaeZjzLe/?taken-by=sallyhayd&hl=en
There are 1,025,109.8 words in the English language but today, after so much violence and bloodshed, even those million words don’t feel like enough.
Warsan Shire is a Somali poet based in London her work has been featured on Beyoncé’s album Lemonade.
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