World Refugee Day

#WithRefugees

Each year on 20 June, the world celebrates World Refugee Day, the international day to honor people who have been forced to flee.

Every child just wants to be happy…

Family displaced, 1948,

OG Nakba, now re-create,

Catastrophe, in Arabic,

Mama’s tongue, silent still,

No words left, cried them dry

https://www.aljazeera.com

Between 2021 and 2023, 950 people are known to have died while crossing the Sahara Desert, although the actual number is believed to be much higher. During the same period, 7,600 people on the move died or went missing in the Mediterranean Sea.

Al Jazeera | 06/20/2024

Cycles, patterns, round or profound,

Stuck and standing, up or down,

Enamored smokes, mirrors too,

Illusion home, I don’t belong

Conflict in Sudan broke out in April 2023. An estimated 1.2 million people had fled the country by the end of the year, with almost all Sudanese refugees hosted by neighbouring countries.

A further 9.1 million Sudanese were displaced within the country, including people displaced by previous conflict. Sudan now has the largest internally displaced population ever reported.

Going nowhere, where are you?

As for me.. I’m.. caught in sand,

Quick the guilt, alive, full-fledged,

Not in borders, allowed to call home

@janarashed__

Summer solstice, too claims today,

Yoga on roof, one hundred eight,

Sun salutates..

Ninety minutes, oh what a day,

Pool top view, blue wonderous hue,

Change of season, I honored the sun,

Repeat, meditate, asked but one thing,

Please spare their lives, their limbs and their heart,

When you hurt, maim or kill, such innocent child,

You eradicate me, my will to exist, my want to exist..

But then all again, you prefer me dead,

Sorry I still, live in your world..

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