Regarding Refugees

(in six acts) I. I do not want to say anything at all. What can be said that is not simply more noise? More often than not, I resonate with Hamilton ’s Aaron Burr: “I’m willing to wait for it I am the one thing in life I can control I’m not falling behind or running late I’m not standing still I am lying in wait.” “Talk less; smile more.” But I cannot. II. For the past year, I have been haunted by Bastille’s words: “Break the silence open wide before it seeps into my ears and fills me up from the inside Now you’ve hit a wall and you’re lost for words Now you’ve hit a wall and you’ve hit it hard It is not enough to be dumbstruck.” have haunted me for the past year. III. This week, at conference, we’ve been studying Esther. Mordecai’s words never cease to haunt: “For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise…from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to th