{"id":5914,"date":"2020-07-07T14:47:14","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/remembering-srebrenica-2020-poem-by-amina-mekic-mimi\/"},"modified":"2020-07-07T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T14:47:14","slug":"remembering-srebrenica-2020-poem-by-amina-mekic-mimi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/remembering-srebrenica-2020-poem-by-amina-mekic-mimi\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Srebrenica 2020 – Poem by Amina Mekic \u2013 Mimi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amina Meki\u0107<\/strong> je mlada djevojka \u010diji su roditelji do\u017eivjeli strahote tokom genocida u Bosni i Hercegovini . \u201cU ratu smo izgubili mnogo \u010dlanova naju\u017ee porodice. Nedavno smo prona\u0161li ostatke mog djeda i dai\u0111e. Mi ne znamo kako i gdje su ubijeni. Jo\u0161 uvijek niko nije odgovarao za njihovu smrt iako je je od toga pro\u0161lo vi\u0161e od 25 godina. Mnogi od nas su raseljeni \u0161irom svijeta. Moja porodica je tokom rata do\u0161lu u Birmingham u Velikoj Britaniji. Genocid vidim bilo kuda da krenem, u mojim roditeljima, mojoj majci prilikom gledanja vatrometa, mom ocu kroz pri\u010de koje dijeli sa mladim generacijama, u bh. zajednici u Velikoj Britaniji te Bosni i Hercegovini. Ne bi trebalo postojati porodica u svijetu koja \u0107e za trepezarijskim stolom pri\u010dati o pre\u017eivljavanju i genocidu. Ali, uprkos svemu ja vidim NADU, kroz obrazovanje novih generacija koje \u0107e saznati \u0161ta se desilo i ne ponoviti ovakva zvjerstva.\u201d, izjavila je Amina.<\/p>\n

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Home is where the heart is<\/em>
\nWhere the food is<\/em>
\nWhere your family is<\/em>
\nSitting in front of their houses at the crack of dawn ready to greet you as you step out onto your balcony<\/em>
\nBreathe in the crisp air<\/em>
\nIt\\'s been 25 years since you\\'ve left<\/em>
\nand the grass has never looked greener<\/em>
\nHere, we have a talent for picking ourselves up<\/em>
\nTurning tears into blue skies and sighs into symphonies<\/em><\/p>\n

Look out onto the city in front of you and the hills and mountaintops and the pink hues that serve as their backdrop (not like the red you were forced to leave without)<\/em>
\nWhere nature and nurture hold hands and promise to give you the best that they can no matter the price<\/em><\/p>\n

Home<\/em>
\nWhere crickets and birds lead an orchestra that lasts all day long and then deep into the night like mini cellists in the middle of Sarajevo<\/em>
\nWhere the mosquitos leave love bites for you to wake up to in the heat<\/em>
\nClaiming that you\u2019re just too tasty to resist<\/em>
\nAnd not in the sweet way but in the kind of way where it\u2019s a place where everyone eats meat and not like chicken but rich red meat and that\u2019s why everyone looks so well fed these days<\/em>
\nThis is no place for vegans<\/em>
\nthat would just be silly<\/em>
\nBecause this land is home to the richest meats and the heartiest of vegetables<\/em>
\nThere is fine dining and even finer drinking and all emotions come from the bottom of the stomach<\/em>
\nAll of the hearty laughs and cheers<\/em>
\nThis is also no place for anyone with sensitive ears<\/em><\/p>\n

Home<\/em>
\nWhere it\u2019s not quite third world but it\u2019s also definitely not first world<\/em>
\nNothing like the countries that took us in<\/em>
\nWhere the diaspora have to slow down their Mercedes on account of the cows standing on the edge of the road\u00a0<\/em>
\nThis is a different type of unique<\/em>
\nmaybe because there\u2019s a truck full of freshly cut pine trees that stretch up into the clouds<\/em>
\nBig blue clear skies in the middle of the day where you can actually see the stars and the moon and the clouds and the birds and the bats and all the other goings on that happen in the small moments of the day<\/em>
\nLike that time we saw two black squirrels chasing each other around the forest<\/em>
\nOr the kittens that turned up unannounced at our front door as if they lived there all their lives<\/em><\/p>\n

Home<\/em>
\nWhere your history is<\/em>
\nNot the one forced upon you by the English curriculum but the real, raw, rubble left behind by all the natural disasters and otherwise<\/em>
\nWhere the cars weave through mountains to get to the next city rather than the m5<\/em>
\nAnd tumbling rocks are held back by silver wires<\/em>
\nAnd on top of those mountains there are great stone castles<\/em>
\nLeft behind by the Ottomans because there was more than enough to go around<\/em>
\nAnd there is history in these streets<\/em>
\nBustling markets where old ladies wear scarves over their heads to protect themselves from promaha\u00a0<\/em>
\nAnd younger generations dance age old routines at modern parties and upload them to instagram for their friends to see<\/em><\/p>\n

And on the way there<\/em>
\nYou will trace your country\\'s scars with your fingertips<\/em>
\nWhen you walk through town and step on unexpected red craters<\/em>
\nThe damage left by Bomb shells filled with red cement as a reminder of the fallen<\/em>
\nPeople who\u2019ve risked their lives for this beautiful place we call home<\/em>
\nThere is a tunnel that stretches through citites like our backbone<\/em>
\nThe same tunnel used to deliver supplies during the darker times<\/em>
\nCoursing through its veins and pulsing hope through its bloodstream even when the mere idea of home was just about ripped away from us all<\/em>
\nIt\\'s been 25 years since you left<\/em>
\nAnd it\\'s still thriving<\/em>
\nExactly where you left it<\/em><\/p>\n

Home<\/em>
\nWhere we are resilient<\/em>
\nWhere we pick ourselves back up and grow from past experiences<\/em>
\nchoosing not to dwell, but rather to remember<\/em>
\nand to honour those roots<\/em>
\nThe history<\/em>
\nThe patriotism, the culture that runs deep through your veins<\/em>
\nThose who fought and those who continue to fight every single day for rememberance<\/em>
\nFor recognition<\/em>
\nFor change<\/em>
\nFor those who build bridges<\/em>
\nBringing up our history so it will never repeat itself<\/em><\/p>\n

Home<\/em>
\nWhere there is love<\/em>
\nAnd there is life<\/em>
\nAnd there\u2019s new family waiting for you every time you go back<\/em>
\nAnd there is fallen family watching over you every step of the way<\/em>
\nWhere this circle of love and life and hope only seems to grow more and more as the days go on<\/em>
\nAnd there will be scorching summers and darker days<\/em>
\nHumbling thunderstorms and beautiful springs<\/em>
\nAnd even when that sun has set<\/em>
\nAnd the sky is dipping from pink to blue<\/em>
\n25 years later<\/em>
\nThis will always be a place for you to call home.<\/em><\/p>\n

Amina Meki\u0107 – Mimi<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amina Meki\u0107 je mlada djevojka \u010diji su roditelji do\u017eivjeli strahote tokom genocida u Bosni i Hercegovini . \u201cU ratu smo izgubili mnogo \u010dlanova naju\u017ee porodice. Nedavno smo prona\u0161li ostatke mog djeda i dai\u0111e. Mi ne znamo kako i gdje su ubijeni. Jo\u0161 uvijek niko nije odgovarao za njihovu smrt iako je je od toga pro\u0161lo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bosniauknetwork.org\/bs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}