Written piece
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Vanessa Mensah
Ghana
About this piece
Inspired by the idea of the Commonwealth Quilt, this poem reflects on how separate threads, once excluded or overlooked, can come together to create harmony. It suggests that communities, like threads in a fabric, gain strength when every strand is allowed to find its place.
Piece by piece, the frays grew taut,
Patterns joined where they belonged,
Threads once told they could not come along,
Found harmony in woven song.