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you look tired

it is because i have been running
they have burned down my home
my sisters are presumably dead
i saw them shoot my mother
they are after me now
i am desperate
please help me

what is that in your hand?

my poetry
it's the only thing i could save

give it to me

no.

he snatched it from me
and despite my screams of protest
he started to read the first page
which i had memorized by heart

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my mother
is afraid to fall asleep
because she thinks she
won't see us in the morning

my mother
starts to scream everytime
we don't respond to her
because she thinks
we are dead

my mother
has nightmares
of losing her daughters
just like she lost her son

my mother
does not look like my mother
she was the heart and soul of the family
but her heart is broken and her soul is gone
all the life has been sucked out of her
it is you who reduced her to bone and skin

my mother
hasn't smiled in days
do you know how
heartbreaking that is?

-

why were tears falling from his eyes?
why did he just throw my book?
but most importantly
why is he taking out his gun?

i shielded myself with my hands
it was the only protection i had
i was praying for a miracle
my eyes were clenched tight
as i heard the gunshot

i waited for the bullet
to pierce my heart
instead there was a dull thud
it was his breathing
that stopped, not mine
it was his life that
had ended, not mine
the man had killed himself.

drenched with sweat
i grabbed my book and
without a moment
of hesitation
i continued to run.

- refugee

if you didn't understand, this poem is about a girl who is running away in hopes to find shelter after her home has been burned down, with just a book in hand she comes across a soldier (the one who killed her mother), he takes her book and reads the poem about the mother and is probably overwhelmed with guilt, he planned to shoot the girl but at the very last second he shoots himself because he would rather die than live with the guilt. it's too much.

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