Photo: Adi Rozen-Zvi
You hold on in the mountains
Where the way of life you had fled
To protect
Has become
Tied into tourists arriving:
Some to gawk
Others to try and learn a bit about
Your rich traditions,
The pain and pride,
The dignity and patient ways,
The complicated significance
Of who you are
And may wish to remain
And how it is bound into the realities
Of avenues still open to you
In a country where you are
Curios and assets,
As well as precious human beings
Full of life and memories,
And to me rare less in your numbers
Than in the profound window
You open into the uniqueness of
Each one of us
And the minority we are or can be
At any time
To some.
For the Friday Foto Fun challenge: Minorities
