This poem about refugees has a powerful hidden message

LONDON -- Arguably any poem benefits from a second reading, but the below poem about the refugee crisis is one you have to read twice.

British poet Brian Bilston shared "Refugees" on Twitter last week. It's since been retweeted over 8,000 times.

Here's the poem in full.

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Using a similar structure to Jonathan Reed's "The Lost Generation" and Julia Copus' "The Back Seat of My Mother's Car", Bilston's "Refugees" creates two different readings from the same set of lines -- while making a powerful point about some of the angry rhetoric that's shadowed the refugee crisis.

"It's a topic that polarises opinions," Bilston told the indy100. "To be able to take one extreme approach and then play it back on itself to come up with a far more humane position gave it its power, I think."

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