Football

Soccer to us.
Football to them.
Flashes of black and white.
A ball kicked.
Up
And
D
O
W
N
A green field.
Smiling faces.
Laughing.
Cheers.
Cheers for a team they don't know.
For white people they can't understand.
They don't cheer for the players.
They cheer for the sport.
For normalcy.
Something familiar
In a foreign land.
Refugee children
And adults.
Side by side in the stands.
Yelling for every goal.
Spanish.
English.
Karenni
Burmrse
Indonesian.

All yelling in a beautiful song.

Taking the refugees on a trip to see a UGA girls soccer game was magical.  They loved it do much, I was blessed just taking them.