I am a refugee

I am a refugee

An ephemeral bee

Searching for my windswept hive.

The wicked and the beastly

Dreadfully, forcing me to flee.

Parting from everything I knew

Lamenting on my separation

To the cold shores of the sea

Mournfully, it consumed my faith.

My offspring crammed in a small boat

Gambling our fate,

Teary eyed I ventured afloat

Only to reach the seashore

As people’s scapegoat.

To be separated from my warm source

In such a forbidding course

Losing all I had--Finally to be reverted

To my windswept hive in remorse,

I failed to foresee.

Forlorn I drew back

Fastening my empty sack

Retreating for the mounts

Cast off by humankind’s spiteful belittling

I opted for the forbidden track

--Stripped of my humanity--

I paraded my loss

As a refugee.

Anosha Zereh