migrant life

Quote: “Refugees didn’t just escape a place. They had to escape a thousand memories until they’d put enough time and distance between them and their misery to wake to a better day.” - Nadia Hashimi Make-Shift tents for lives shifted existence, I never dreamt belittled with no future I stare at rustling blank white shelter I I I I I I I I I I I I I coming in search of quiet sky, hurried from noisy land, I can hear even distant blowing winds of sea Shooed away, I forgot dignity.Yet I smile when cared by some, I make urns that fill ashes, art perfected by much work, daily orders . I think while working how to tell my kids? should I try to teach alphabets, numbers, rhymes? What for? or should I make them learn maps to locate where we are, or should I tell that we are news to all? unknowingly, I make sure, they learn to make urns If they survive they need some skills To live by, and never to meet one’s eyes