Anglo-Danish by birth, Robin Helweg-Larsen was raised in the Bahamas. He blogs at formalverse.com ('Form In Formless Times').

Robin Helweg-Larsen

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Kinship

I feel a kinship with those, never met,
who live, uncertain and displaced
in the wrong place on planet earth and sea:
with different languages at home and school,
without a passport from the place they're raised,
their natural faith despoiled by pointless war,
their sex uncertain, orphaned from themselves,
poets of restlessness, pilots adrift,
obscure, uncertain in their rootlessness,
chameleons of constant camouflage,
and all the little that they know deep down
forever hidden from some foreign frown.