Because the hugely popular Instagram poet is bringing her inspirational verse to the Lincoln Theatre on October 29-30, we asked Kaur to suggest something Washingtonians might find enlightening. Kaur—who was born in India and now lives in Ontario—picked a poem with particular current resonance. “It’s about the migration experience,” she says. “It’s about roots. It’s about what’s happening in our world today and what’s been happening for so long.”
perhaps we are all immigrants
trading one home for another
first we leave the womb for air
then the suburbs for the filthy city
in search of a better life
some of us just happen to leave entire countries
—Rupi Kaur
Poem courtesy of Andrews McMeel Universal, from Kaur’s book The Sun and Her Flowers
This article appears in the October 2018 issue of Washingtonian.
