It is almost as if scientists have discovered

a new subsection of Humanity

that never appeared in the growing pains

of the species between ape and man.

The new hailing stone of enlightenment

and information which comes our way via the mass

media in which the modern discovery was made

suggests that this scientific breathing wonder

that eats, sleeps, makes love and has the capacity

for great artistic endeavour

they found

crossing the seas in search of life

should not exist

and yet as they die in their hundreds,

fleeing God knows what horrors and they fight

with courage to escape, I see no sign of off-shoot of man,

nothing more remarkable than the wish to survive

and stand in their own Bipedal way, no Hobbit like creature,

or Homo Neanderthalensis, just what the press call a Migrant;

funny, they look Human to me.

Ian D. Hall 2015.